Security News > 2020 > October > Angry YouTube-dl users flood GitHub with new repos after takedown
Users of the extremely popular YouTube-dl YouTube media downloader have flooded GitHub with new repositories containing the tool's source code after GitHub took down the project's repositories on Friday.
On October 23, 2020, GitHub took down YouTube-dl's repositories due to a DMCA infringement notice filed by Recording Industry Association of America, an organization that represents the recording industry in the U.S. Before being removed, YouTube-dl's repo was in the top 40 most starred GitHub repositories with more than 72,000 stars, between Node.js and Kubernetes.
While almost everyone was expecting blowback from YouTube-dl's angered users due to the Streisand effect, the number of new repos that showed up on the version control platform has surpassed most people's expectations.
As shown when doing a quick search for YouTube-dl, GitHub now hosts hundreds of new repositories containing the source code of the YouTube downloader or related to it.
Besides the huge number of new YouTube-dl repos that popped up since October 23, a copy of YouTube-dl's source code was also added to an official GitHub repository used for hosting received DMCA takedown notices.