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YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA

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panzer:
youtube-dl - a copyright-respecting fork of youtube-dl:
https://github.com/l1ving/youtube-dl

wraith808:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/angry-youtube-dl-users-flood-github-with-new-repos-after-takedown/

The Streisand Effect at work!

The funniest one is the fact that someone posted a commit to github's official DMCA repo using an exploit which Github had declined to fix.

panzer:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/angry-youtube-dl-users-flood-github-with-new-repos-after-takedown/

The Streisand Effect at work!

The funniest one is the fact that someone posted a commit to github's official DMCA repo using an exploit which Github had declined to fix.
-wraith808 (October 27, 2020, 07:55 AM)
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Look at pull requests:
https://github.com/github/dmca/pull/8148

 :)

Github's CEO is pissed:
https://torrentfreak.com/riaas-youtube-dl-takedown-ticks-of-developers-and-githubs-ceo-201027/

He tried to reach devs on IRC, nobody believed him that he really is a CEO:
https://www.twitter.com/t3rr4dice/status/1320660235363749888/photo/

panzer:
GitHub Warns Users Reposting YouTube-DL They Could Be Banned:
https://torrentfreak.com/github-warns-users-reposting-youtube-dl-they-could-be-banned-201102/

wraith808:
GitHub Warns Users Reposting YouTube-DL They Could Be Banned:
https://torrentfreak.com/github-warns-users-reposting-youtube-dl-they-could-be-banned-201102/

-panzer (November 02, 2020, 07:22 AM)
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Github Probably Doesn’t Want to Suspend/Ban Anyone
The new comments from Github’s Corporate Counsel seem designed to serve as a reminder to people who want to protest on Github itself. While dissenting commentary isn’t under any threat of a response, it appears – reading between the lines – that Github hopes people won’t continue to risk their accounts on the platform by reposting material that will only have to be taken down.

If such content is repeatedly taken down by the platform, then Github’s repeat infringer policy will need to be considered under law and as history has shown, that either ends badly for users or for platforms themselves, there is no real middle ground.

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