YouTube-dl's repository has been restored

Re:YouTube-dl's repository has been restored by charlesdaniels on Monday November 16, 2020 @02:01PM (#25115581)

I think it is important to note that GitHub's parent company[1] Microsoft is a member of the RIAA[0], the group who initially filed this DMCA.

The cynic in me says this was deliberately pre-planned to garnet free press. That type of behavior would certainly be in-line for the company responsible for the Halloween Documents[2][3].

Even if we give GitHub, and by extension Microsoft the benefit of the doubt here, this is a lesson we should not soon forget: Microsoft will not go to bat for you, not unless you can wield the power of the HN/Reddit/Twitter/etc outrage machine to create a PR problem for them.

Don't rely on Microsoft to be the centralized underpinnings of the open source world. At worst, it paves the way for EEE[4] 2.0. At best, it creates a single centralized target for malicious actors, such as the RIAA.

0 - https://www.riaa.com/about-riaa/riaa-members/

1 - https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2018/10/26/microsoft-comple...

2 - http://www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/

3 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents

4 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...

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Re:YouTube-dl's repository has been restored by warlord1 on Monday November 16, 2020 @02:48PM (#25116137)

I agree. Any globo-corp is going to do funny shit for PR. They operate on an entirely different level that most people don't really understand. This is really just a war game for them... and now they understand how much they can provoke their own users.

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Re:YouTube-dl's repository has been restored by ranman on Monday November 16, 2020 @03:14PM (#25116459)

I sincerely doubt this was planned. If you’ve ever worked for a large global corp you would find it difficult to believe anything could be coordinated. Everyone involved at every level is trying to climb that ladder.

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