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Freenode is dead. That’s the unfortunate truth. On May 19, an event regularly described as “hostile takeover” , in which the control over the biggest IRC network for free, open-source software has been forcefully taken away from the volunteer group called Freenode Staff who have run it ever since it was founded about…

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Update: YouTube-dl reinstated thanks to EFF (2020)

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In October, the popular and famous archivist tool youtube-dl was taken down by GitHub due to a DMCA request by the Recording Industry Association of America. I posted a detailed analysis explaining the relation between international, US, EU and German law, and showing why this request was very different from what most…