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A favorite instrument used for archiving YouTube movies, YouTube-dl, has been gone from GitHub following the Recording Industry Association of America filed a claim asserting that the code is essentially illegal under copyright legislation.
GitHub, that will be owned by Microsoft, eliminated 18 jobs on Friday that formerly hosted variations of YouTube-dl, a Python library which permits the downloading of YouTube movie and sound documents. Those repositories currently display a message”This repository is now disabled because of a DMCA takedown notice. We’ve got disabled people accessibility into the repository”
Even though the note is styled as a DMCA problem,” the takedown detect in the RIAA, obsolete Friday, does not make argue that YouTube-dl is still an act of copyright violation. On the contrary, it insists the code is a breach of another part of Us copyright legislation (in addition to German copyright legislation ), as the”apparent goal of this source code would be to… circumvent the technological protection measures employed by approved streaming services like YouTube, also [to] replicate and distribute music movies and audio recordings owned by our member firms without consent for such usage.”
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