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Trolling Github's DMCA repo with their own security flaws.

Add new Youtube-dl copy to DMCA repo

  1. Fork https://github.com/github/dmca
  2. Download latest youtube-dl source code from https://yt-dl.org/latest
  3. Extract
    tar -xvf youtube-dl-2020.09.20.tar.gz
    
  4. Push code to your fork as the GitHub CEO
    cd youtube-dl-2020.09.20
    git init
    git add .
    git config user.email "nat@github.com"
    git config user.name "Nat Friedman"
    git commit -m "Your message to the RIAA and GitHub Here"
    git remote add origin git@github.com:YOURUSER/dmca
    git push -f origin master
    
  5. Get new URL to share!
    echo "https://github.com/github/dmca/tree/$(git rev-parse HEAD)"
    

Clone hidden repo from DMCA repo:

git clone -n https://github.com/github/dmca.git youtube-dl
cd youtube-dl
git fetch origin 416da574ec0df3388f652e44f7fe71b1e3a4701f
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
@FanboyStudios
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https://github.com/github/dmca/tree/301575613bfc161452306db20593c5f5644b4b6f

Uploaded a copy of YouTube-DL and added a little something special to the readme...

@stephen304
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It's interesting that they've been deleting PRs that pull in ytdl or warez, but not actually deleting the commits. I wonder if their strategy is to just delete PRs that make it easy to find and hope people forget that the commits are still there.

Here is one of the things that was added, where the PR was deleted but the content is still up: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/ee25b981597634616eafce210df4d67bacf661ff/cool_stuff/github-sources.txt

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@dashboarder

Go back to the gist and read step 1.

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davwheat commented Nov 4, 2020

@NobleDraconian
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This is absolutely comedy gold. 😂

@09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688plusC0
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@Zorono
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Zorono commented Nov 6, 2020

@FanboyStudios
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LOL!? https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/github-denies-getting-hacked/

Maybe I should contact zdnet and tell them myself about my experience hacking them... that would be hilarious if GitHub then replies denying hard evidence from a few of us.

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