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by superasn 2062 days ago
This recent takedown will only make more people know about YouTube-Dl and hopefully create more forks. When will these big companies learn!?
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The takedown may spark new life to the project development, which severely slowed down in the last months because there are too few maintainers.
Plenty of people used and knew about youtube-dl already. It's made the front page of HN multiple times [0]. I've used it as a key example of why/how non-programmers should learn to use the command-line. People who weren't already aware or didn't care to learn aren't going to be significantly moved now.

[0] https://hn.algolia.com/?q=youtube-dl