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The GitHub CEO Nat Friedman (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=natfriedman https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=natfriedman) personally reached youtube-dl de
by whereistimbo 6y ago
The GitHub CEO Nat Friedman (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=natfriedman https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=natfriedman) personally reached youtube-dl dev on IRC to offer an helping hand. https://twitter.com/t3rr4dice/status/1320660235363749888 https://twitter.com/t3rr4dice/status/1320660235363749888 (via TorrentFreak)
- feanaro 6y agoWhich is more of an indication that they realized this is costing them too much good will after the fact. He did still require code to be removed in order to reinstate the repository and the RIAA still managed to cause turmoil, so I would call this too little, too late.
- wegs 6y agoWhich was a completely duplicitous PR stunt. Nat: * Complied with a DMCA take-down request which he had no legal reason to comply with. DMCA takedown requests are for infringing content. DMCA bans anticircumvention measures, but that's between youtube-dl and RIAA. RIAA does that by initiating litigation, or sending a demand letter to the youtube-dl project. * Took down forks of youtube-dl, which he had no reason to do. Those should have been independent DMCA requests. * Threatened to ban users who forked youtube-dl, in violation of his own ToS and DMCA policy. If Nat was doing the bare minimum required to maintain legal compliance, I wouldn't fault him. Legally, he's zealously pursuing youtube-dl and acting as the RIAA's lapdog. At the same time, he's publicly making statements of empathy towards youtube-dl. Pathetic.
- vulcan01 6y agoI wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft's legal department can override Mr. Friedman's decisions. GitHub's owned by Microsoft, after all. And Microsoft is part of the RIAA...
- raxxorrax 6y agoYou cannot know if it is intended or just damage control, because of course it will also fall back on GitHub.