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YouTube-dl has been taken down

11 points by Steven420 ↗ HN
Just got this message when trying to download youtube-dl:

Access denied

Due to a ruling of the Hamburg Regional Court, access to this website is blocked. Zugriff gesperrt

Aufgrund eines Urteils des Landgerichts Hamburg ist der Zugriff auf diese Website gesperrt.

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hnarn
The fact that you are blocked from visiting a website does not mean that it has been “taken down”.

I don’t know exactly what the domain you’re trying to access is but most likely this block is at a DNS level, so just stop using the DNS server provided by your ISP (which there is no reason to do anyway) and use something like https://www.dns0.eu/ or one of the many other alternatives instead.

Also, in my opinion, yt-dlp is better.

phoe-krk
https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl works just fine for me and so does http://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/. What's your DNS?
Steven420
The official website is what was taken down
phoe-krk
What is the address of the official website?
on_the_train
The infamous court strikes yet again. They must get so much money
r0ckarong
Next time this happens just type "<thing you wanted> mirror" into your search engine. Usually that will give you some more options. Geoblocking tools is not going to stop unfortunately.
hnarn
Or, you know, maybe don’t use DNS servers that break the Internet, and maybe don’t rely on “mirrors” that you have no idea who is operating them.
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emjoes1
Why would anyone use an online service for this anyways. Why not just use VLC?