After the RIAA had youtube-dl removed from GitHub final year,the platform decided to reinstate the YouTube-ripping tool, claiming that the industry group's takedown was unwarranted. However, or users who forked the project weren't so lucky and according to a counternotice filed this week,GitHub isn't responding to casual restoration requests. There is probably a good reason for that.
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