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German courts order youtube-dl software site taken down
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Sony, Warner and Universal get legal lebensraum

A German court has ordered hosting provider Uberspace to take the website of the open-source youtube-dl software offline. The ruling results from a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by Sony, Warner, and Universal last year. Uberspace will appeal the verdict and meanwhile, youtube-dl's code remains available on GitHub.