Youtube-dl Site Goes Offline as Hosting Provider Enforces Court-Ordered Ban

Hosting provider Uberspace has taken down the website of YouTube-ripping software, youtube-dl. The removal is the result of a German court order in a copyright infringement lawsuit, filed by Sony, Warner and Universal. While Uberspace didn’t host the open source software, it was held responsible for the website linking to the software hosted on developer platform GitHub.

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