RIAA wipes youtube-dl from the internet

[Geoff Smith]

On 24/10/2020, Shevek <shevek at shevek.co.uk> wrote:
>> But still available here -
>>
>> https://yt-dl.org/download.html
>
> Ah, I didn't know it had it's own site, I originally found it via GitHub
>
> I wonder if there is a pending DMCA with the hosting provider?
>
> The -U switch is currently returning 'ERROR: can't find the current version.
> Please try again later.' so perhaps that works off GitHub?
>
This works for me :

cd /usr/local/bin/
sudo mv youtube-dl youtube-dl.$(date +%Y%m%d)
sudo wget https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -O
/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl