<story><title>YouTube-dl is now part of GitHub/dmca.git</title><url>https://github.com/github/dmca/tree/416da574ec0df3388f652e44f7fe71b1e3a4701f</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DavideNL</author><text>Would it not be possible to move to some decentralized Github alternative?</text></item><item><author>xg15</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s a fun hack, but to those thinking about streisanding the source: The strength of ytdl and other downloaders isn&amp;#x27;t their source code, it&amp;#x27;s the extensive library of scrapers that are tailor-made for individual sites.&lt;p&gt;The devs have to constantly maintain and update those to keep working when a site changes its design.&lt;p&gt;So if the takedown manages to stop ongoing development on ytdl then even existing copies will become mostly useless pretty quickly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xg15</author><text>You mean something like... got? ;)&lt;p&gt;But I agree with the sibling posts, while decentralised change tracking is pretty much the original idea of git, all the project management stuff (issues, comments, membership&amp;#x2F;permissions, discoverability) are a lot harder to decentralize.&lt;p&gt;I also don&amp;#x27;t think the MPAA or whoever else would be very impressed by that if the end result is still illegal activity: If the developers are known, then they&amp;#x27;d either have to pass on the project to someone else or risk liability, whether their project repo is centralised or not.</text></comment>
<story><title>YouTube-dl is now part of GitHub/dmca.git</title><url>https://github.com/github/dmca/tree/416da574ec0df3388f652e44f7fe71b1e3a4701f</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DavideNL</author><text>Would it not be possible to move to some decentralized Github alternative?</text></item><item><author>xg15</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s a fun hack, but to those thinking about streisanding the source: The strength of ytdl and other downloaders isn&amp;#x27;t their source code, it&amp;#x27;s the extensive library of scrapers that are tailor-made for individual sites.&lt;p&gt;The devs have to constantly maintain and update those to keep working when a site changes its design.&lt;p&gt;So if the takedown manages to stop ongoing development on ytdl then even existing copies will become mostly useless pretty quickly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>metters</author><text>There was a hackernnews article about a decentralised github (not yt-dl) yesterday:
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=24874994&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=24874994&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>