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What section of this document were you following when you decided to take down a repo without any copyright infrigement?

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As far as I understand, the legal footing for the RIAA takedown request comes from here: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201

Yep, but the article linked to by the ceo discusses section 501 which applies to copyright infringements. The riaa doesn't (that I'm aware of) have a copyright on anything in youtube-dl's repo.

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