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| magic:
So the DMCA complaint isn't even technically valid, because no content of RIAA members is being hosted at GitHub. RIAA only alleges that youtube-dl is a circumvention tool, but there are no provisions for automatic takedown of such tools akin to the automatic takedown of copyrigted material itself. Nevertheless, Microsoft® GitHub® executives are "annoyed" because they know that this invalid complaint is a threat that RIAA could potentially sue the developers for aiding circumvention and then sue GitHub for aiding aiding circumvention, so they just went along with the request. Despite being "annoyed" and "willing to unblock the project", GH apparently isn't willing to take on any risk and just asks the developers to remove whatever the RIAA didn't like. The project obviously will chose to remove those features over changing their git host ::) ;D |
| thinkfat:
Never underestimate how quickly an annoyed development team can act. |
| madires:
Freedom of the Press Foundation: Music industry forces widely used journalist tool offline (https://freedom.press/news/riaa-github-youtube-dl-journalist-tool/). |
| maginnovision:
They're probably annoyed because they need to sue and get a ruling otherwise they open themselves up to being sued for not complying with the order. It's not as if these companies want to comply because they hate their users it's just cheaper to lose some users than sue or be sued. |
| magic:
Yeah, but it's lame nevertheless. They could just shut up and not make a public display of what pussies they are. Their "deep regret" is not going to convince the project to stay. Their "anger" is not going to stop RIAA from doing more of it to them. Typical victim posturing, as if anyone cared :-DD |
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