In one of the more bizarre tech gambits in some time, the Recording Industry Association of America has taken the fight against digital piracy to an unexpected level: targeting an open-source program ...

Once you're on the distribution page, scroll down a bit to find the downloadable files. This time I want to use it on Windows, so I clicked 'yt-dlp.exe' to download it. Next, move the downloaded ...

GitHub has reversed its decision to boot YouTube-dl, a popular tool for archiving YouTube videos, from its platform. The company restored repositories this week after "additional information" ...

'Youtube-dl' is a project aimed at downloading videos such as YouTube, Nico Nico Douga, and bilibili. It was developed by Ricardo Garcia, who lives in Spain, because ...

A popular tool used for archiving YouTube videos, YouTube-dl, is gone from GitHub after the Recording Industry Association of America filed a claim arguing that the code is inherently illegal under ...

Microsoft-owned GitHub has removed today 18 projects from its code-hosting portal following a legal request filed by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). All the code repositories ...

When I reviewed the video player IINA (see “Prepare for Apple Dropping Old Media Formats with the IINA Video Player,” 6 May 2019), quite a few TidBITS readers took it as an opportunity to vent their ...

The Microsoft-owned software code repository GitHub has warned users not to upload banned content to the site, following its decision to take down the youtube-dl script after a complaint from the ...

ViDL is a YouTube download app for Mac. It comes from Ole Moritz, developer of the amazing Pythonista and Editorial iOS apps. ViDL is a simple wrapper for the youtube ...

Another legal success for the music industry in the dispute over the youtube-dl.org website and the Youtube-DL program library for MP3 downloads that was once linked ...