Finally some good news in this hellish year. GitHub has restored popular video downloader tool, YouTube-dl, after the company banned it in October. The code hosting platform said that new information ...

In the ever-evolving landscape of cyber threats, two platforms traditionally viewed as safe spaces for content creation, learning and open-source collaboration have become targets for distributing ...

The source code for YouTube-dl, a tool you can use to download videos from YouTube, is back up on GitHub after the code repository took it down in October following a ...

GitHub has issued a warning that accounts could be banned if they continue to upload content that was removed due to DMCA takedown notices. On October 23rd, 2020, GitHub removed the source code ...

GitHub cites browser extensions such as translation and ad blockers, media player software that can play YouTube videos, etc., and developers of other software can also be held criminally responsible ...

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You won’t find the source code for YouTube-DL, a popular tool that can be used to download videos from YouTube, and for some of its forks and copies on GitHub ...

'Youtube-dl' is a project aimed at downloading videos such as YouTube, Nico Nico Douga, and bilibili. It was developed by Ricardo Garcia, who lives in Spain, because ...

A popular tool used for archiving YouTube videos, YouTube-dl, is gone from GitHub after the Recording Industry Association of America filed a claim arguing that the code is inherently illegal under ...