Main target of the takedown was the youtube-dl project, a Python library that had amassed more than 72k stars on GitHub and was used in many YouTube video ripping tools and services.

A Github repository is basically a folder designed to store files. It is also available online for anyone to download, access, and contribute to the files/code within the folder.

In case people were wondering about why RIAA and Github are wrong about taking down youtube-dl: As a YT creator, I use youtube-dl to make a backup of my channel - my own content.

GitHub has issued a warning that accounts could be banned if they continue to upload content that was removed due to DMCA takedown notices.

Security engineer Lance Vick noted that programmers have even exploited a bug to attach the original YouTube-dl source code to GitHub’s repository for DCMA takedowns. Hey @GitHub.

The Recording Industry Association of America, Inc. (RIAA) has taken down the popular Youtube-dl GitHub repositories using a DMCA takedown notice.

A well-known software for downloading YouTube videos, youtube-dl, has been restored to GitHub a few weeks after a takedown notice from the RIAA.

A popular tool used for archiving YouTube videos, YouTube-dl, is gone from GitHub after the Recording Industry Association of America filed a claim arguing that the code is inherently illegal ...