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Which will lead to GitHub adding content filters which will lead to false flags and rejected commits which will lead to algorithms wrongly flagging existing content in your repo which will lead to a byzantine appeal processes which ... ... no wait, that was my Youtube channel.
Does one imagine that the RIAA is substantially worried about this? I don't. I'm sure they see it as a total win.
But now there is no official fork of youtube-dl, so development will either stop or be fragmented. And users will not want to trust any given fork, so downloads will taper off. If the original creator endorses a fork, is he making himself liable? - not sure what happens if you repost after a takedown notice. And the involvement of the law, and the publicity will lead overall to self-censoring, as most devs won't want…
Github is more interesting because of eg issue tracking, but there are other ways to do that.
Which will lead to GitHub adding content filters which will lead to false flags and rejected commits which will lead to algorithms wrongly flagging existing content in your repo which will lead to a byzantine appeal processes which ... ... no wait, that was my Youtube channel.
I am going to leave Github, since the tech giants + Mozilla should not be trusted.
But now there is no official fork of youtube-dl, so development will either stop or be fragmented. And users will not want to trust any given fork, so downloads will taper off. If the original creator endorses a fork, is he making himself liable? - not sure what happens if you repost after a takedown notice. And the involvement of the law, and the publicity will lead overall to self-censoring, as most devs won't want…
youtube-dl has made new releases after the takedown, so development appears to be continuing.
But now there is no official fork of youtube-dl, so development will either stop or be fragmented. And users will not want to trust any given fork, so downloads will taper off. If the original creator endorses a fork, is he making himself liable? - not sure what happens if you repost after a takedown notice. And the involvement of the law, and the publicity will lead overall to self-censoring, as most devs won't want…
TL;DR: Someone uploaded 3 (yes three) mp3s, which will be duly removed if they haven't been already. Torrentfreak bothered to tell the RIAA, to generate further drama and ad views, but even they weren't interested. This has nothing to do with youtube-dl; it's just someone annoyed about it doing something completely pointless.
RIAA couldn't care less. As far as I understand, they practically are just a team of lawyers whose job is to attack whoever they can reach, take whatever they can down and collect money when possible. They hardly even care about the actual recording business, let alone about how do people feel about them.
> This request wasn't well-received by developers, many of whom retaliated by posting copies of the code. Yesterday, things went from bad to worse when a user with the name 'F * T RIAA' uploaded three MP3s of the songs the RIAA mentioned in its takedown notice RIAA couldn't care less. As far as I understand, they practically are just a team of lawyers whose job is to attack whoever they can reach, take whatever they…