Last month, GitHub removed a popular tool that is used to download videos from websites like YouTube after it received a DMCA takedown notice from the Recording Industry Association of America ...

In a blog post, GitHub said it took down Youtube-dl because the RIAA claimed the software was designed to circumvent “technological measures” protecting videos from unauthorized copying.

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.

GitHub has reversed its decision to boot YouTube-dl, a popular tool for archiving YouTube videos, from its platform. The company restored repositories this week after "additional information ...

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 reinstated YouTube-dl after it took down the tool last month.

GitHub has reinstated today the youtube-dl open-source project, a Python library that lets users download the source audio and video files behind YouTube videos. GitHub, a code-hosting repository ...

GitHub repo now also hosting YouTube-dl's source code Besides the huge number of new YouTube-dl repos that popped up since October 23, a copy of YouTube-dl's source code was also added to an ...

GitHub has restored the code of a project that the RIAA demanded it take down last month after finding that the group’s DMCA complaint was meritless. YouTube-dl, a tool that lets videos from the ...