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by jaspergilley 2070 days ago
In light of this DMCA, this seems like a site that needs to exist...but I don't know of one? Seems like as trivial a build as anything cryptographic actually
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Well, there's git over SSB (Secure Scuttlebutt) and got over IPF (Interplanetary Filesystem)... That should be distributed uncensorable git...
Yes, we do need this. I feel that the first step would be to move ytdl to a self hosted repository. But even this has the potential for takedowns.
If we rename it and add some open license video as an example instead of music videos, can they still ask for a takedown?
They should rename it to open-license-content-dl, paste warnings all over the readme about how it should NOT be used to download copyrighted content, post it to github, and see what happens.
> some open license video

Perhaps 'Copying Is Not Theft'[1]?

https://youtu.be/IeTybKL1pM4

they could create a youtube channel and upload some test/example videos to that