[Arnavion]

The description blurb at the top implies it's not by the original maintainers.

>This is a backup of https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl since it was taken down by the RIAA.

>I'll wait to see what happens with the GitHub repository and the current maintainer before I do anything with this clone.

[akerro]

yes, looks like it. only member in the organization is https://gitlab.com/iruoy who doesn't seem to be related to the official youtube-dl