@Gargron Well that is abusing a system.

@gargron it's terrifying to think the law tolerates these people

@Gargron that sucks

@Gargron the nerve of those bastards...super coincidence I was about to try it out later today wtf

@gargron The latest release files including source code are still on PyPI, recommend everyone downloads a copy and stashes it somewhere for a while: https://pypi.org/project/youtube_dl/#files

@Gargron This is outrageous

@Gargron приплыли

@Gargron are they f*cking kiddig, what the f… is this sh*t

@Gargron I use it every day… to watch youtube with mpv and newsboat.

They could also DCMA any youtube third party clients such as Freetube, Newsboat and Invidious for similar reason

@Gargron Ждём теперь их возвращения на каком-нибудь youtube-dl.xyz

@Gargron Это же просто Кафка какой-то. Что за бред? Какой ещё РИАА? Причем здесь Риаа и программа для скачивания видео? Это программа для скачивания не с сайта риаа. Какого хера хреновы куколды из #microsoft прогнулись, а не послали на хуй?

@Gargron You can still grab source tgz from pypi.org. But this is a terrible day for open source software

@Gargron I fear that this might one day happen to my favourite privacy front ends like Nitter, Yotter and Invidious. This sucks.

@Gargron a useful piece of code.

@Gargron
I'd be interested what a lawyer thinks about the copyright law on this. I can't see how it would be successful prosecution.

@Gargron
I'd be interested what a lawyer thinks about the copyright law on this. I can't see how it would be successful prosecution.

@Gargron
I'd be interested what a lawyer thinks about the copyright law on this. I can't see how it would be successful a prosecution.

@Gargron
I'd be interested what a lawyer thinks about the copyright law on this. I can't see how it would be a successful prosecution.

@Gargron There are already some mirrors: https://gitee.com/mirrors/youtube-downloader and https://codeberg.org/explore/repos?tab=&sort=recentupdate&q=youtube-dl

Die RIAA (Lobbyverband der Musikindustrie in den USA) bittet um dezentrale Sicherungskopien von YouTube-dl.

@Gargron youtube-dl must be removed from GitHub because it can be used for something unlawful
. Python should be removed because was used to make YouTube-dl. Windows/MacOS/Linux should be removed ..., computers should be removed...

@Gargron
Interestingly, I think there was something against a lot of twitch streams that use copyrighted music in the past few days.
Not sure if #riaa is going after more than just #youtube-dl
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/10/twitch-blasts-streamers-with-vague-unhelpful-dmca-takedown-emails/

@Gargron Found this, AFTER the RIAA Take Down notice sent to Git Hub.
<https://git.rip/mirror/youtube-dl>