New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What's the big deal about YT-dl when streaming has replaced downloading?
Ask HN: What's the big deal about YT-dl when streaming has replaced downloading?
12 by behnamoh | 36 comments on Hacker News.
Back in the day, we had thumb drives, external hard drives, internet download managers, torrent websites, video player software, and ways to download yt videos for later use. But now there's barely any need for those as streaming has pretty much replaced the old mediums of acquiring and consuming video. But having a look at youtube-dl's repo, there's more than 109k stars, which shows how popular the thing is. Even a DDG bug that would exclude youtube-dl from the search results received so much attention by HN. Still though, I don't understand why downloading from yt is so important nowadays. To be clear, I'm not asking whether it's ethical or not. I'm asking why do people need to download stuff in the first place?
12 by behnamoh | 36 comments on Hacker News.
Back in the day, we had thumb drives, external hard drives, internet download managers, torrent websites, video player software, and ways to download yt videos for later use. But now there's barely any need for those as streaming has pretty much replaced the old mediums of acquiring and consuming video. But having a look at youtube-dl's repo, there's more than 109k stars, which shows how popular the thing is. Even a DDG bug that would exclude youtube-dl from the search results received so much attention by HN. Still though, I don't understand why downloading from yt is so important nowadays. To be clear, I'm not asking whether it's ethical or not. I'm asking why do people need to download stuff in the first place?
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