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When a DMCA Notice Took Down an Open Source Tool — and What Engineers Should Learn From ItIn October 2020, the RIAA sent GitHub a DMCA takedown targeting youtube-dl and dozens of its forks, arguing the tool circumvented technological protection measures under the DMCA's Section 1201. The takedown — and its eventual reversal — exposed serious fault lines around open source sustainability, legal exposure for tool authors, and the fragility of infrastructure engineers quietly depend on.