This afternoon, one of the most well-known pieces of software for downloading YouTube videos, youtube-dl, was removed from GitHub following a takedown notice from the Recording Industry Association of ...

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 ...

While the original YoutTbe-dl repository is still down, there are now hundreds of new forks of it on GitHub and Gitlab. Security engineer Lance Vick noted that programmers have even exploited a bug to ...

youtube-dl, an open source tool that allows users to download videos from YouTube, alleging that the tool encourages copyright infringement on YouTube, a German court has dismissed an appeal by ...

At this point, you’ve likely heard that the GitHub repository for youtube-dl was recently removed in response to a DMCA takedown notice filed by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

Ryan is a tech/science writer, skeptic, lover of all things electronic, and Android fan. In his spare time he reads golden-age sci-fi and sleeps, but rarely at the same time. His wife tolerates him as ...

Youtube-dl site no longer loads and cannot even be accessed using a VPN When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. At the time of writing, ...