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Asking Microsoft to resign from the RIAA over YouTube-dl takedown demand

sfconservancy.org 3 min read

We learned on Friday that GitHub removed youtube-dl's primary collaboration forum and code repository from their site, which had been hosted at https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl. The action was in response to a DMCA Section 512 notice that the RIAA sent demanding removal of youtube-dl, which was released and…

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