As anyone who has used youtube-dl knows, it is an extremely powerful and useful tool for format-shifting. It’s super popular among archivists and has incredibly broad fair use applications. The RIAA stance here is pretty aggressive and out there.

Holy cow, the RIAA has gotten youtube-dl taken off Github. DMCA notice: github.com/github/dmca/blob/mast…

If you’ve got work on Gothamist, DNAInfo, or one of the sister sites that were disappeared today and you want PDFs of what is still available in caches, hit me up

This analogy is actually pretty clever t.co/isZfLWhuD3