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

by TheAssassin assassinate-you.net published 2020-11-248 min read

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…

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