Security engineer Lance Vick noted that programmers have even exploited a bug to attach the original YouTube-dl source code to GitHub’s repository for DCMA takedowns. Hey @GitHub .

Microsoft-owned software repository GitHub has reinstated YouTube-dl after a RIAA copyright complaint, and it’s promised to donate $1 million to a new legal defense fund.

In case people were wondering about why RIAA and Github are wrong about taking down youtube-dl: As a YT creator, I use youtube-dl to make a backup of my channel - my own content.