GitHub reinstated a YouTube video downloader that the RIAA claimed was a piracy tool

Photo: GitHub GitHub has reinstated an open-source tool for downloading YouTube videos, and it's changed its policies to make similar copyright-related takedowns less likely. Yesterday, the Microsoft-owned software repository reversed its removal of YouTube-dl, which lets users save local copies of streaming videos from YouTube and many other sites. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) demanded that GitHub remove YouTube-dl in late October. It alleged that the tool "was designed ...