this post was submitted on 23 Aug 2024
130 points (100.0% liked)

Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

62220 readers
283 users here now

⚓ Dedicated to the discussion of digital piracy, including ethical problems and legal advancements.

Rules • Full Version

1. Posts must be related to the discussion of digital piracy

2. Don't request invites, trade, sell, or self-promote

3. Don't request or link to specific pirated titles, including DMs

4. Don't submit low-quality posts, be entitled, or harass others



Loot, Pillage, & Plunder

📜 c/Piracy Wiki (Community Edition):

🏴‍☠️ Other communities

FUCK ADOBE!

Torrenting/P2P:

Gaming:


💰 Please help cover server costs.

Ko-Fi Liberapay
Ko-fi Liberapay

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

I am getting the following error after upgrading yt-dlp

ERROR: [Piracy] This website is no longer supported since it has been determined to be primarily used for piracy. DO NOT open issues for it

Does anyone know any forks that still works.

all 26 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] stefenauris@pawb.social 58 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wow really? That's kind of a shitty stance for them to take.

[–] laz@pawb.social 33 points 10 months ago (3 children)

True, but sadly the kind of one they must take to avoid being hit with a cease and desist.

[–] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 14 points 10 months ago

They know someone will fork it. Playing it safe is smart

[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 5 points 10 months ago

Especially when downloading from the other supported sites (example: YouTube) is already against their tos and technically, piracy

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

From whom? The piracy site owners?

[–] far_university190@feddit.org 12 points 10 months ago

Copyright troll. They even hit manga reader app. Not even distribute any material, just a reader. Just because can load manga from piracy site.

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 38 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I don't think a fork will solve anything. I'm pretty sure the reason they did this is to cover their asses (don't forget that it was very near to being taken down just a few years ago).

Further, yt-dlp has implemented plugin support, for this exact reason. I think that's a new feature compared to youtube-dl. You can add your own extractors as plugins, wherever you find them. As I remember there are a few plugins that are even maintained by a yt-dlp maintainer.

If you find this to be ok or better, please consider changing the title to let those know about what's happening who have already read the post, because they wouldn't know it otherwise.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Time to fork it with a non pussyfied version

A plugin for yt-dlp will suffice. It's also easier to maintain.

[–] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)
[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Maybe you can find some more discussion and the reasoning in their documentation or Github issues or pull requests. I bet this has been discussed before someone implemented it. Maybe there's also a way to restore the old behaviour.

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 7 points 10 months ago

There is, they added plugin support. See my top level comment for details

[–] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This isn't going to make the copyright holders hate them any less.

But it IS giving the copyright holders less attack surface to bite into. Haters gonna hate, let them.

[–] themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 months ago

The most likely explanation is that their previous implementation broke due to a website change, and they didn't want to bother with fixing it. People began opening issues for them to fix it, but now it looks like they're aiding people explicitly asking for piracy, so they can't win (and also I'm willing to bet it fucking sucked trying to support that particular website)

[–] mbirth@lemmy.ml 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is that an indirect plea to open an issue for it? We should do this.

[–] Lemmling@lemm.ee 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Could be a liability for them to have to work on support for those sites when it breaks.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like its time for a pirate fork... maybe yt-dlpirate?

I mean, fuck it, one of the big private trackers could do releases, kind of like how Bibliotik does releases of those tools to strip DRM from ebooks.

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

some way to call a custom or 'third party' (not compiled into the program) extractor would probably be enough. then let other people work on ones for the, um, 'problem sites'.

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 2 points 10 months ago

Right. Site plugins or something.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Fork it and put it on radicle or I2P. The MAFIAA can go fuck themselves.

Anti Commercial-AI license

[–] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 10 months ago

What sites for eg?