Re: Emms and youtube-dl

[Rudolf Adamkovič]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

> When you run software on your own machine, you have to be concerned
> with maintaining it or updating it.  When you talk to a service, you
> don't.

Ah, I see.  I thought you meant maintenance burden for the EMMS
developers.  Then, it makes sense.

(Though, as a user of EMMS myself, I would prefer to run the scraper on
my computer.  And why not?  I see it as yet-another unnecessary
dependence on "the cloud" for no good reason.)

> For this job, it makes no moral difference whether you talk to
> youtube.com or invidious.whatever -- either way, you're downloading
> the video from a service.

Agreed.  Thank you for the clarification.

Rudy
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