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# Microsoft GitHub<br/>taking free software down, one DMCA notice at a time
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 has caved to RIAA and [blocked `youtube-dl`](). This is [bad for many reasons](https://freedom.press/news/riaa-github-youtube-dl-journalist-tool/), and shows why using a centralized, corporate-controled walled garden is dangerous for free/libre/open source software projects.
Microsoft GitHub (and RIAA) should have known better &mdash; not least because [Streisand Effect is a thing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect). So, here's a list of `youtube-dl` mirrors:
Microsoft GitHub (and RIAA) should have known better, though &mdash; not least because [Streisand Effect is a thing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect). So, here's a list of `youtube-dl` mirrors:
- https://codeberg.org/polarisfm/youtube-dl
- https://git.nixnet.xyz/Amolith/youtube-dl
- https://code.loranger.xyz/rob/youtube-dl
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[Here's another source of mirror links](https://docs.nixnet.services/Mirror_lists), for good measure.
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 has never actually been merged into it.
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 show arbitrary content in the context of any public upstream repo even if it has never actually been merged into 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). And so, you can still clone the original `youtube-dl` code using GitHub's own DMCA repo (the irony is just too sweet):
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## 🔥 Microsoft GitHub: this is fine 🔥
So, I guess this is fine:
- https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/179b91033ec39fbef969281716ecf37c07184683/GITHUB_IS_EVIL.md
- https://github.com/github/docs/blob/96bacc64dde55edbc4aa4f6e6a18f713200cd28f/GITHUB_IS_EVIL.md
- https://github.com/github/fetch/blob/938303e5ea92824c0cdd8ae0ba6c47ab77418d33/GITHUB_IS_EVIL.md
- https://github.com/microsoft/MLOS/blob/e4b537d25a5bfdea3bb0f2910b5b404b3d4de7db/GITHUB_IS_EVIL.md
- https://github.com/github/training-kit/blob/7fdaaf1b4deed2689669e16959625c9be9485ace/GITHUB_IS_EVIL.md
- https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/blob/a8fcd50d4ccff302b8175275230b05b252d3a1b4/GITHUB_IS_EVIL.md
- https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/179b91033ec39fbef969281716ecf37c07184683/GITHUB_IS_EVIL.md
## Better alternatives
More importantly, stop using Microsoft GitHub. There are many alternatives, here are some really good ones:
- [SourceHut](https://sr.ht/) is a nice, ethical forge.
- [GitLab](https://gitlab.com/) is a good "batteries-included" alternative; it is self-hostable, or you can set-up an account on one of the many public instances.
- [Gitea](https://gitea.io/en-us/) is a minimalistic self-hostable forge.