RIAA DMCAs GitHub into nuking popular YouTube video download tool, says it can be used to slurp music

[marcusquinn]

Oooops:

• https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/23/riaa_youtube_dl_github/
  Deplatforming is a growing hazard!

[robi]

@marcusquinn Ban all spoons! They can be used to scoop out the eyes of the RIAA.

[jdaviescoates]

Hopefully they'll just move to a self-hosted repository.

To be honest I normally just use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/easy-youtube-video-download/ for YouTube but do sometimes use my Alltube install for other sites.

[yusf]

Selfhosting the repo isn’t the solution it may look like though. What moving off Github really entails is increasing the effort of contributing to the project as coordination capability and discoverability tanks.

This is the stranglehold the centralized services always have. A way to circumvent that is to federate Github-like services, a strategy in which Cloudron really can play a part.

The projects aren’t there yet but there’s coordination happening between existing selfhosted git collaboration platforms such as Gitlab and Gitea, and on the Web3 side of things Radicle is moving into beta soon iirc.

[jdaviescoates]

@yusf said in RIAA DMCAs GitHub into nuking popular YouTube video download tool, says it can be used to slurp music:

Radicle

For others who hadn't heard of this:
https://radicle.community/

[robi]

@jdaviescoates https://radicle.xyz/