Worthless RIAA issues C&D notice to youtube-dl citing DMCA violations

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The clear purpose of this source code is to (i) circumvent the technological protection measures used by authorized streaming services such as YouTube, and (ii) reproduce and distribute music videos and sound recordings owned by our member companies without authorization for such use.

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In light of the above noted copyright infringements and anticircumvention violations, we ask that you immediately take down and disable access to the youtube-dl source code at all of its locations where it is hosted on GitHub, including without limitation those locations in the representative list set forth above.

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Two decades later, still playing whack-a-mole. They've kicked off the Streisand Effect, and the program is being massively publicized on the techy sites, so I figured I would post it here. Clones of the github code repository are multiplying rapidly, and of course there are thousands of linux distros that also have copies in their repos.

Anyway, I would hate for any of you to run afoul of the law, and since it is apparently illegal to use software on your own computer to download files from a website, I suggest that you uninstall your web browsers immediately.