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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by roywiggins on Friday October 23, 2020 @05:39PM (#24874519)
The issue with the readme infects the rest of the code, even if it's removed. It's still evidence that the repository was intended to facilitate copyright infringement. The problem isn't the words of the readme but what those words imply about what the authors of the code intended.

If they instead had released it and then said in a public forum "check out my cool code for copyright infringement" (but had a totally blameless README) that would be used as evidence in the same way.

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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by dane-pgp on Saturday October 24, 2020 @02:06AM (#24877299)
Equally, then, couldn't another author fork the code and distribute it under a new name, with the offending test removed and a blameless README that says "please don't use my cool code for copyright infringement"?

It sounds like you're saying the problem is with the original authors, not the code itself, so taking down the code seems like the wrong approach for the RIAA.

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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by tomrod on Friday October 23, 2020 @06:57PM (#24875243)
Time to fork.
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