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Guerilla Open Tube
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| Copied from the FB post here: https://www.facebook.com/obvio171/posts/10153000167759469 | |
| Guerilla Open Tube in 8 Steps: | |
| 1. Install youtube-dl: http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/ | |
| 2. Type this in the command line. It will download the video given by the URL: youtube-dl <video url> | |
| 3. Publish a torrent of the downloaded video file, be the first seeder, and grab the magnet link | |
| 4. Create a github repository called "guerilla-open-tube" with a "/video-ids" directory, like this one: https://github.com/obvio171/guerilla-open-tube | |
| 5. Add the video's magnet link as the first line in a text file named with the video's ID (the last part in the downloaded video's filename; a file ending in "-6GgbD7ZqIow.mp4" has an ID of 6GgbD7ZqIow, and would have as filename "6GgbD7ZqIow.txt", without the quotes) in the "/video-ids" directory (the other lines in the text file can be used for commentary or metadata—formats for this can emerge organically) | |
| 6. Find other repositories with the same name and merge in stuff from other people | |
| 7. Download & keep seeding | |
| 8. Teach 2 other people how to do this | |
| Voilá! We have a distributed, censorship-resistant backup of YouTube! \o/ |
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Thanks for mirroring :) I've updated the README so it's self-contained now: https://github.com/obvio171/guerilla-open-tube
Please let me know if there's other information you would find relevant to be included there. Thanks for the help!