GitHub restores DMCA-hit youtube-dl code repo after source patched
Found on The Register on Tuesday, 24 November 2020
"We are taking a stand for developers and have reinstated the youtube-dl repo," said GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, via Twitter. "Section 1201 of the DMCA is broken and needs to be fixed. Developers should have the freedom to tinker. That's how you get great tools like youtube-dl."
Vollmer also said GitHub plans to urge the US Copyright Office to support greater developer freedom in the exemptions to the anti-circumvention provisions of Section 1201 adopted for the law's upcoming triennial review process.
Thanks to the RIAA, more people than ever before have now learned about youtube-dl.