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Microsoft 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, 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. 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
- https://git.hackers.town/The_gibson/youtube-dl2.git
- https://gitlab.com/nephros/youtube-dl
- https://salsa.debian.org/debian/youtube-dl
- https://git.marcg.pizza/~marcg/youtube-dl
- https://git.osuv.de/star/youtube-dl
- https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/
- https://git.nixnet.xyz/Amolith/NewPipe
- https://code.loranger.xyz/rob/NewPipe
Here's another source of mirror links, 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. 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.