• Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
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    3 months ago

    Hope that doesn’t lead to a crackdown. There’s tons of old and/or obscure movies available on YouTube that you can’t find anywhere else.

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          3 months ago

          Sony (Columbia / Screen Gems) has several legit YouTube channels and uploads old TV episodes and movies. Some of their channels are Throwback TV, Classic Rewind TV, Stream City and many others.

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      3 months ago

      Best start using ytdl to download, because of course Google will bow to the movie industry

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          3 months ago

          YouTube(compatible with other video sites as well) downloader. It’s a command line tool but highly versatile. Originally, youtube-dl used to be recommended but development nearly crawled to a halt on that.

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            3 months ago

            I got a GUI version of ytdl when I bought SVP (converts movies, shows, anime from 23FPS to 60+FPS) and I LOVE IT SO MUCH