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snazz on Nov 5, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: GitHub Source Code Leak

As far as I understand, the legal footing for the RIAA takedown request comes from here: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201

hundchenkatze on Nov 5, 2020 [–]

Yep, but the article linked to by the ceo discusses section 501 which applies to copyright infringements. The riaa doesn't (that I'm aware of) have a copyright on anything in youtube-dl's repo.

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