GitHub took down popular YouTube downloader — so devs made more copies


Last week, GitHub took down the popular YouTube video downloader tool “YouTube-dl” after the Recording Industry Association of America, Inc. (RIAA), the organization that represents record labels, issued a DCMA takedown notice. As a result, the code hosting site took down multiple repositories.  RIAA argued that the YouTube-dl repository used technology violated section 1201 of copyright …
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