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Re:GitHub reinstated youtube-dl but restoring forks is appar... by forgotpwd16 on Sunday April 18, 2021 @10:18AM (#26852679)
A DMCA'd repo cannot be deleted and you cannot fork twice. Of course it's possible for someone to make a new disconnected to the upstream repo and push their fork[^1] to it but they won't be able to do PRs to upstream.

[^1]: Considering they have a local clone of their repo.

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