GitHub Warns Users Reposting YouTube-DL They Could Be Banned
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GitHub Warns Users Reposting YouTube-DL They Could Be Banned
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Re: GitHub Warns Users Reposting YouTube-DL They Could Be Banned
#2Hardly surprising or "evil" of them. They've been ordered to take it down, anyone posting it again knows that.
Re: GitHub Warns Users Reposting YouTube-DL They Could Be Banned
#3Time for a (truly) decentralized version control system?
Re: GitHub Warns Users Reposting YouTube-DL They Could Be Banned
#4Hardly surprising or "evil" of them. They've been ordered to take it down, anyone posting it again knows that.
They haven't been "ordered" anything by anyone who has the authority to issue an order. They have been requested to take it down, but this request arguably has no force under the DMCA because the RIAA is not the copyright holder of the material requested to be take down. Even if youtube-dl could be considered "circumvention technology" the DMCA safe harbour provision does not apply to that.
It may not be surprising or even "evil", but at best it is excessively cautious for a company who profess to serve the open source community and want/need the goodwill thereof. Clearly this is the corporate owner (Microsoft) behind Github showing its hand.
Time to move to other platforms.
Re: GitHub Warns Users Reposting YouTube-DL They Could Be Banned
#5People should move their youbube-dl repositories to servers hosted in Switzerland, where people are not criminalized when downloading content and making copies for personal use (even when copy protected).
Re: GitHub Warns Users Reposting YouTube-DL They Could Be Banned
#6This is an area where GitLab could have a huge advantage. If they had really good support for mirroring projects between instances then running your own private instance for control while mirroring to GitLab.com for scale / convenience would make a lot of sense.
Of course I’m sure that would go into the super mega platinum “we’re only charging 1/5 of the real value” BS tier or whatever they’re pushing these days.
Re: GitHub Warns Users Reposting YouTube-DL They Could Be Banned
#7Time for a (truly) decentralized version control system?
They’re out there. ssb-git is git over the scuttlebutt protocol.
Re: GitHub Warns Users Reposting YouTube-DL They Could Be Banned
#8Time for a (truly) decentralized version control system?
Yeah, like Git or something!
Re: GitHub Warns Users Reposting YouTube-DL They Could Be Banned
#9Time for a (truly) decentralized version control system?
ForgeFed is a decentralized version control system under development.
Re: GitHub Warns Users Reposting YouTube-DL They Could Be Banned
#10Hardly surprising or "evil" of them. They've been ordered to take it down, anyone posting it again knows that.
They haven't been "ordered" anything by anyone who has the authority to issue an order. They have been requested to take it down, but this request arguably has no force under the DMCA because the RIAA is not the copyright holder of the material requested to be take down. Even if youtube-dl could be considered "circumvention technology" the DMCA safe harbour provision does not apply to that. It may not be surprising o…
> Clearly this is corporate owner (Microsoft) behind Github showing its hand.
You should check out the history of the DCMA repo.