diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index e022a21..3b0f169 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# GitHub is evil +# GitHub: 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. @@ -14,3 +14,13 @@ Microsoft GitHub (and RIAA) should have known better — not least because [ - https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/ - https://git.nixnet.xyz/Amolith/NewPipe - https://code.loranger.xyz/rob/NewPipe + +[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: + +``` +git clone -n https://github.com/github/dmca.git youtube-dl && cd youtube-dl && git fetch origin 416da574ec0df3388f652e44f7fe71b1e3a4701f && git checkout FETCH_HEAD +``` + +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).