Lately Microsoft GitHub caved to RIAA and [blocked `youtube-dl`](). This is [bad for many reasons](https://freedom.press/news/riaa-github-youtube-dl-journalist-tool/), but shows why using a centralized, corporate-controled walled garden is a dangerous thing.
Microsoft GitHub (and RIAA) should have known better — not least because [Streisand Effect is a thing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect). So, here's a list of `youtube-dl` mirrors:
[Here's another source of mirror links](https://docs.nixnet.services/Mirror_lists), for good measure. And, you can still clone the original repo using:
Now, *hilariously* GitHub also [decided not to fix a potential security issue related to how repository forks are kept on the back-end](https://iain.learmonth.me/blog/2019/2019w371/). This makes it possible to make it seem like an upstream repo contains content that never actually ended up in it.
In other words, GitHub has no issue with [`youtube-dl` seemingly hosted in GitHub's own DMCA repository](https://github.com/github/dmca/tree/416da574ec0df3388f652e44f7fe71b1e3a4701f).