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# Microsoft GitHub<br/>taking free software down, one DMCA notice at a time
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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.
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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.
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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:
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Microsoft GitHub (and RIAA) should have known better, though — not least because [Streisand Effect is a thing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect). So, here's a list of `youtube-dl` mirrors:
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- https://codeberg.org/polarisfm/youtube-dl
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- https://git.nixnet.xyz/Amolith/youtube-dl
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- 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.
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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.
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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.
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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 🔥
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So, I guess this is fine:
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- https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/179b91033ec39fbef969281716ecf37c07184683/GITHUB_IS_EVIL.md
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- https://github.com/github/docs/blob/96bacc64dde55edbc4aa4f6e6a18f713200cd28f/GITHUB_IS_EVIL.md
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- https://github.com/github/fetch/blob/938303e5ea92824c0cdd8ae0ba6c47ab77418d33/GITHUB_IS_EVIL.md
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- https://github.com/microsoft/MLOS/blob/e4b537d25a5bfdea3bb0f2910b5b404b3d4de7db/GITHUB_IS_EVIL.md
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- https://github.com/github/training-kit/blob/7fdaaf1b4deed2689669e16959625c9be9485ace/GITHUB_IS_EVIL.md
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- https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/blob/a8fcd50d4ccff302b8175275230b05b252d3a1b4/GITHUB_IS_EVIL.md
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- https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/179b91033ec39fbef969281716ecf37c07184683/GITHUB_IS_EVIL.md
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## Better alternatives
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More importantly, stop using Microsoft GitHub. There are many alternatives, here are some really good ones:
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- [SourceHut](https://sr.ht/) is a nice, ethical forge.
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- [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.
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- [Gitea](https://gitea.io/en-us/) is a minimalistic self-hostable forge.
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