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p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div>Youtube-dl.org's web hosting provider is being sued by Sony, Universal, etc. Wouldn't surprise me if this group has legally threatened Duck Duck Go, and they caved rather than fighting in court.<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://torrentfreak.com/youtube-dls-hosting-provider-fights-record-labels-lawsuit-220308/">https://torrentfreak.com/youtube-dls-hosting-provider-fights-record-labels-lawsuit-220308/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Interesting that GitHub is not reported as being sued over youtube-dl. This might be related to difference between American and German law, and the fact that GitHub has announced a $1,000,000 legal defence fund for fighting any lawsuit to take down youtube-dl.<br></div><div><br></div><div>If the German lawsuit is resolved in favour of youtube-dl.org then duck duck go is then probably safe to relist youtube-dl.org.</div><div><br></div><div>On Sat, Apr 16, 2022, at 12:08 AM, Chris Irwin via kwlug-disc wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On Fri, Apr 15, 2022, at 22:44, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt-qt" style=""><div dir="ltr"><div>The claim that DuckDuckGo removed Youtube DL from its search results looks dubious at best ...<br></div><div><br></div><div>Try it yourself. First result is Github's repo for it ...<br></div></div></blockquote><div><div><br></div><div>That was mentioned in the article:<br></div><div><br></div><div>"<i>We don't know why the official youtube-dl.org website is not in
DuckDuckGo's search results, but at least the official GitHub repository
is still findable."</i><br></div><div><br></div><div class="qt-signature">-- <br></div><div class="qt-signature"><b>Chris Irwin</b><br></div><div class="qt-signature"><br></div><div class="qt-signature"><span class="qt-font" style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace, sans-serif;">email: chris@chrisirwin.ca</span></span><br></div><div class="qt-signature"><span class="qt-font" style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace, sans-serif;"> web: <a href="https://chrisirwin.ca">https://chrisirwin.ca</a></span></span><br></div></div><div><br></div><div>_______________________________________________<br></div><div>kwlug-disc mailing list<br></div><div><a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a><br></div><div><a href="https://kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org">https://kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org</a><br></div><div><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div></body></html>