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A Popular YouTube Downloading Tool Has Been Removed From GitHub By The Recording Industry – Gizmodo Australia
A tool used by creators, archivists and other users to download YouTube video has been taken off the internet’s most popular code depository.
The world’s most popular software repository has been given a takedown notice to remove a popular open-source tool used to download YouTube videos, claiming that it’s being used to “copy and/or distribute” copyrighted works.
On Friday, a letter sent on behalf of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) was published on GitHub, a website used to store and collaborate on software development now owned by Microsoft.
The letter listed 18 copies of youtube-dl, a well-known project that allowed…
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