Youtube-dl received a DMCA takedown from Github by RIAA

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Best would be a repository via "Onion routing aka tor" or IPFS:wink:

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21 repos down two weeks ago. How about more than 2100 now?
:smirk:

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The original repository is back:


https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/11/2020-11-16-RIAA-reversal-effletter.pdf
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It seems to have been back for a few days now … I updated it successfully and it corrected a video download issue. :+1:

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There have been forks (a lot of forks :crazy_face:). Original repo was made publicly visible today.

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I don’t doubt that but wonder how my version knew where to look for the updated version.
:man_shrugging:
Guess I need to look at the code to see if I can recognize anything in it. :wink:

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“we will paint this as a win and being defenders of freedom”

  • said after enforcing takedown and only re-enabling the repo after the ‘offending’ bits like the cypher was removed, which was the reason for the citation …

I dont think it takes a lot of energy to see through their self-congratulatory press release.

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Video DownloadHelper, for Firefox, easily downloads YouTube videos.

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