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Github restores YouTube-DL, tweaks copyright takedown process – iTnews
Million dollar developer defence fund established.
Github has restored a Youtube downloader software tool project it had removed after folding to a Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) copyright complaint.
The command line YouTube-DL downloader had been published since 2006 on different internet sites before moving to Github.
It was removed after RIAA filed a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) complaint September, creating a furore among developers.
Coders were quick to rebel against the take-down, devising several different ways…
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