![]() It has been used as the basis for many other applications, but also ships with a CLI front end targeting advanced users. This allows third-party video players to stream videos, legitimately download copies and much more. Youtube-dl is a Python library which can be used to decode stream URLs of a large variety of services. published a takedown notice after taking down youtube-dl’s main repository as well as a number of its forks. I have curated some links to interesting resources such as summaries, news, blog posts, resignation letters etc., so read on if you want to take a look yourself. The way this “new management” has literally grabbed power and then started to defame the old staff clearly shows that they don’t have the best intentions, not for the users, not for Freenode as a project, not for IRC. Large parts of their claims can be verified, something I cannot say about claims from the “new management”. ![]() In the past days, I have analyzed the available resources (i.e., blog posts, pasted chat logs, and other publicly available information from both sides), and I support the former Freenode Staff in this matter. I do not have time to provide a nice summary on the topic as I have previously, e.g., for the youtube-dl incident.
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