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qwerty456127
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How journalists use youtube-dl
> Mourning the loss of ytdl myself but trying to be realistic)
It's just a GitHub repository which is lost, not ytdl itself.
johnmaguire
on Oct 27, 2020
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So - if the issue is really the marketing around youtube-dl, does this mean someone can create a fork named something else, use different marketing, and carry on?
qwerty456127
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I can see no reason why not. Just don't put it on GitHub, put it on a private hosting in a country unfriendly to copyright trolls.
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It's just a GitHub repository which is lost, not ytdl itself.