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The RIAA is coming for the YouTube downloaders – Yahoo News Australia

I received a few myself. One such popular tool used by many developers, YouTube-DL, has been removed from GitHub for the present after an RIAA threat, as noted…

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In ye olden days of piracy, RIAA takedown notices were a common thing I received a few myself. But that’s mostly fallen off as tracking pirates has gotten more difficult. But the RIAA can still issue nastygrams to the creators of software that could potentially be used to violate copyright, like YouTube downloaders.
One such popular tool used by many developers, YouTube-DL, has been removed from GitHub for the present after an RIAA threat, as noted by Freedom of the Press Foundation’s Parker Higgins…

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