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This thread is for legal discussion regarding the lawsuit. For general discussion about youtube-dl, the RIAA, this DMCA, the DMCA itself, Github, etc, go to this thread.

Yout LLC is the containing company responsible for youtube-dl, a phenomenal and popular free and open source software project that enables users to easily download multimedia from webpages, including (and especially) YouTube. This project is used in many other projects (both for profit and free, such as VLC) to enable playing third party multimedia in a way that the user so prefers.

Naturally, the Recording Industry Association of America is attempting to destroy it.

On October 23rd, 2020, the RIAA filed a DMCA complaint with Github, a company owned by Microsoft which is handles collaborative software projects like youtube-dl and which hosts the source code for it.
October 23, 2020

GitHub

Dear Sir or Madam:

I am contacting you on behalf of the Recording Industry Association of America, Inc. (RIAA) and
its member record companies. The RIAA is a trade association whose member companies
create, manufacture or distribute sound recordings representing approximately eighty-five (85)
percent of all legitimate recorded music consumption in the United States. Under penalty of
perjury, we submit that the RIAA is authorized to act on behalf of its member companies on
matters involving the infringement of their sound recordings, audiovisual works and images,
including enforcing their copyrights and common law rights on the Internet.

Copyright Violations. We have learned that your service is hosting the youtube-dl source code
on its network at the following locations, among others:

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl
https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/tree/gh-pages
http://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/
https://github.com/benkeung/youtube-dl
https://github.com/cyberjacob/youtube-dl
https://github.com/elaopinska/youtube-dl
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