YouTube-dl's repository has been restored

Re:YouTube-dl's repository has been restored by TechBro8615 on Monday November 16, 2020 @02:02PM (#25115587)

On the contrary, they’re doing a lot, including establishing a $1M legal defense fund for developers and a technical team to review the validity of anti-circumvention DMCA notices. It seems like they’re doing a lot more than just paying lip service to EFF / developer freedom, and they should be commended for it.

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Re:YouTube-dl's repository has been restored by TheKarateKid on Monday November 16, 2020 @02:58PM (#25116262)

They’re correcting a wrong because their reputation took a big hit in the dev community. Now there’s big talk of the dangers of not self-hosting your repo and the monoculture of using GitHub.

Although it probably has good intent, this is largely PR.

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Re:YouTube-dl's repository has been restored by abnry on Monday November 16, 2020 @07:19PM (#25118889)

Or they just panicked with the RIAA request and needed time to regroup. Cynicism doesn't have to be a hobby.

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Re:YouTube-dl's repository has been restored by freshhawk on Monday November 16, 2020 @08:39PM (#25119411)

Being a rube isn't a great hobby either, that's why "fool me once ..." is a famous saying. As are the various versions of "who benefits?".

Pretty decent rules of thumb.

And at a higher level ... who cares if they did it maliciously or because they "panicked", you can't ever know that anyway and either one means you can predict what they will do in similar situations.

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Re:YouTube-dl's repository has been restored by TheKarateKid on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @07:26PM (#25131692)

This isn't the first frivolous DMCA request GitHub complied with. A company owned by one of the largest tech companies in the world doesn't need to "panic" about something like this.

Sounds like cynicism is your hobby, buddy.

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Re:YouTube-dl's repository has been restored by abnry on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @01:24PM (#25140370)

That's not what cynicism means.

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Re:YouTube-dl's repository has been restored by Vorh on Monday November 16, 2020 @04:43PM (#25117328)

Even if largely PR, that's still a million dollars.

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Re:YouTube-dl's repository has been restored by woofie11 on Monday November 16, 2020 @09:23PM (#25119651)

After Nat's cynically duplicitous comments and actions, it's hard to view this as anything other than PR. A $1 million expense is not a big advertising expense for github. It was a $7.5 billion sale. Microsoft spend 0.013% of that on this PR piece.

I can't imagine the fallout from this didn't wipe several times that off of github's valuation.

If github had done this before the EFF letter, it would have been something else. With the EFF letter, they have zero liability to reinstating the repo, and are borderline legally required to do so.

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Re:YouTube-dl's repository has been restored by naniwaduni on Monday November 16, 2020 @09:33PM (#25119709)

We should still incentivize correcting wrongs over letting them stand.

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