RIAA wipes youtube-dl from the internet

[michael norman]

On 25/10/2020 18:51, Peter S Kirk wrote:
> The one thing I've not seen link to, other than El Reg, is the RIAA DMCA
> takedown notice:
>
> https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/10/2020-10-23-RIAA.md
>
> They seem to have given up on torrent sites as TPB, Zooqle etc now
> available on BT. Moved on to unfunded community projects. imo evil bstards
>
> Let's hope it's another pointless whack a mole
>
> "Depriving artists"? No, I might dl, but I'd never have paid if no dl
>
> RIAA assumes all who dl for free would pay - false dichotemy
>
> On 24 Oct 2020 at 20:14, VeniVidiVideo VeniVidiVideo
> <venividivideoed at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the (sad) heads up and the wget solution.  I had to use an extra flag to get it:
>>
>> wget https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl --no-check-certificate -O youtube-dl_latest
>>
>> But that worked, and obtained the 2020.09.20 version.  Curiously it's quite a bit smaller than the 2020.09.06 version I had installed.  Keeping both until I know the version I just downloaded works well.
>>
>> -vvv
>>
>>> On Oct 24, 2020, at 10:32 AM, Roger Bell_West <roger at firedrake.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 03:24:45PM +0100, Jim web wrote:
>>>> i.e. came from the openmandriva address.
>>>>
>>>> Is that correct and as should be expected?
>>> No idea, but it's identical to the version 2020.09.20 that I already had.
>>>
>
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What has any of this got to do with GIP ?  Surely it is OT ?