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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
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davwheat commented Nov 4, 2020

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This is absolutely comedy gold. 😂

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Zorono commented Nov 6, 2020

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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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