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.
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.
Fork it and put it on radicle or I2P. The MAFIAA can go fuck themselves.
Is that an indirect plea to open an issue for it? We should do this.
They are closing all issues citing piracy https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q=is%3Aissue+piracy+is%3Aclosed
Could be a liability for them to have to work on support for those sites when it breaks.
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.
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’.
