GitHub decides to revive video download project 'youtube-dl'
In response to a deletion request from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), the
Standing up for developers: youtube-dl is back --The GitHub Blog
https://github.blog/2020-11-16-standing-up-for-developers-youtube-dl-is-back/
'Youtube-dl' is a project aimed at downloading videos such as YouTube, Nico Nico Douga, and bilibili. It was developed by Ricardo Garcia, who lives in Spain, because there was no communication environment for watching videos by streaming.
However, the RIAA requested deletion of the copyright technical protection (TPM) stipulated in Article 1201 of the DMCA, 'Prohibition of detour', and the repository on GitHub was deleted. I did.
Non-profit organizations and journalists who support open source software have opposed this move. The CEO of GitHub was also working to revive the repository.
GitHub officially decided to revive 'youtube-dl' because the Electronic Frontier Foundation provided information that 'youtube-dl' did not violate Article 1201 of the DMCA.
In response to this incident, GitHub announced that it will establish a $ 1 million (about 105 million yen) 'Developer Defense Fund' to protect developers from unreasonable deletion requests under Article 1201 of DMCA. .. For open source developers, we will review the processing procedure for deletion requests, and technical experts will scrutinize all deletion requests based on DMCA Article 1201 which was a separate procedure so far, and the scope of unjustified complaints and DMCA We have announced that we will refuse anything that exceeds the above when the request arrives at GitHub.
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