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by toyg 2060 days ago
Cam down. This will just end up like DeCSS, when it was packaged separately and left to the user to trigger the necessary download.

Distribution/integration is the easy part. The hard part is to anonymise and secure core developers, and to allow contributions to continue flowing in a safe manner.
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AshamedCaptain 2060 days ago
But user loss implies contributor loss, and that is the problem. It's not about me being able to find it (I definitely will be able to :) ), or guaranteeing a "safe harbor" to developers (there are plenty of organizations that are dying to host something like this). It's about a project hat requires a shit ton of constant manpower not having it because of it being "tainted".
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toyg 2059 days ago
It’s not C++ and complex encryption, this is a python web scraper - hardly rocket science. I don’t think manpower will be significantly harder to come by than it was in the past — the opposite, in fact.
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AshamedCaptain 2059 days ago
It did not say it requires experienced manpower, I said it requires a lot of it, and importantly, constantly. It's easy to find a bunch of "fanatics" that will rise to the ocasion to "defend their freedoms" right now. But that is not what these projects require. On the other hand, it's hard to have volunteers who will keep doing the _menial_ changes for years as the different websites change their HTML/layout. Anything less and the tool loses a huge chunk of its usefulness.
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toyg 2059 days ago
Yes, but this was the same before. If anything, the current visibility is a shot in the arm. I don't think that, once the dust settles, youtube-dl will end up with less regular contributors than it had before - likely the opposite, in fact.
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