So youtube-dl has finally been reinstated. Took them long enough, but I guess that means that GitHub's statements weren't just words. Nice!

https://github.com/ytdl-org/...

So it was just a dos attack. Is that legal?

@electrineer I don't follow, what do you mean by that?

They also made a statement about this:
https://github.blog/2020-11-16-stan...

While I really appreciate their measures taken to prevent such situations in future, I feel like there is an apology missing in that blog post.
But that is complaining on a high level

@kmccmk9 riaa can deny any service with baseless claims with no consequences