RIAA’s YouTube-DL Takedown Ticks Off Developers and GitHub’s CEO 

An RIAA takedown request, which removed the YouTube-DL repository from GitHub, has ticked off developers and GitHub’s CEO. Numerous people responded by copying and republishing the contested code, including in some quite clever ways. Meanwhile, GitHub’s CEO is “annoyed” as well, offering help to get the repo reinstated.

Source: RIAA’s YouTube-DL Takedown Ticks Off Developers and GitHub’s CEO * TorrentFreak

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