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Joxean Koret
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So, Google has DMCA'ed the Open Source project Youtube-dl and Github removed it. There are multiple links to get youtube-dl in this tweet:
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scriptjunkie (Matt)
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youtube-dl was taken down by RIAA via DMCA. You know, the one that was archived here: web.archive.org/web/2020101813 and is still live here: pypi.org/project/youtub with hash e0ece0221b389c8054cb86661d8f9fb7408d8f4dbc17cc413715dd61ad825133 just in case you wanted to check it for malware
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Daniel Micay
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It's a takedown by the RIAA on behalf of music video copyright owners. It's based on the DMCA forbidding tools for circumventing DRM. It's not based on youtube-dl containing copyrighted material and it's not YouTube / Google doing the takedown. Haven't seen a takedown like this.
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Daniel Micay
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They aren't saying that youtube-dl contains anything in violation of copyright licenses, etc. but rather that it's a tool for bypassing DRM. Like most services, GitHub complies with any seemingly legitimate DMCA takedown. Can usually get it reversed via a counter-notice though.
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Daniel Micay
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I've been the target of a DMCA takedown on GitHub because I had a repository fixing a few bugs in PicoTTS. A former contractor claimed the company that published the open source code hadn't paid them for it. Don't know who was in the right so I had to just delete the repository.
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