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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.
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 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. And so, you can still clone the original youtube-dl code using GitHub's own DMCA repo (the irony is just too sweet):
git clone -n https://github.com/github/dmca.git youtube-dl && cd youtube-dl && git fetch origin 416da574ec0df3388f652e44f7fe71b1e3a4701f && git checkout FETCH_HEAD
🔥 Microsoft GitHub: this is fine 🔥
So, I guess this is fine:
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