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Re:GitHub Warns Users Reposting YouTube-DL They Could Be Banned by gruez on Monday November 02, 2020 @07:30AM (#24967402)
>No service provider is going to fight a specific case of DMCA for a third-party.

How far do you think I'll get if I tried to file a bogus DMCA request for a Microsoft repo?

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Re:GitHub Warns Users Reposting YouTube-DL They Could Be Banned by sbarre on Monday November 02, 2020 @07:40AM (#24967487)
Not far because _Microsoft_ - the owner of the repo - will fight you on it.

It happens that they own Github, but s/Microsoft/Oracle/ and you'll probably get the same result.

The automated systems will take down the repo for a bit, then the owner of the repo will kick your ass in court.

It just happens that youtube-dl doesn't have a large corporate owner, and the RIAA _is_ a large corporate entity, and so this is how it happens.

Your anger is misdirected here....

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Re:GitHub Warns Users Reposting YouTube-DL They Could Be Banned by gruez on Monday November 02, 2020 @08:02AM (#24967688)
>The automated systems will take down the repo for a bit

That seems unlikely, considering that would be a massive DDoS vector.

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Re:GitHub Warns Users Reposting YouTube-DL They Could Be Banned by sbarre on Monday November 02, 2020 @09:15AM (#24968292)
Fair enough, I was making an assumption there.. but you are probably correct.
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