asking Microsoft to resign from RIAA over youtube-dl takedown demand

DuroSoft writes: The folks over at the Software Freedom Conservancy have posted a public letter to Microsoft urging them to cease their membership in the RIAA over the recent spurious DMCA takedown of youtube-dl on GitHub, highlighting the many legitimate uses of youtube-dl as e.g. a tool for journalists and archivists which notably does not include any infringing material in its source code.

For the past few days the takedown story has rocked the open source world, dominating the front pages of Hacker News and Tech Dirt, alongside news of recent massive DMCA takedowns of millions of potentially fair use video clips on Twitch.tv without the ability for streamers to appeal.

Will Microsoft embrace their new role as conservator of GitHub and huge swathes of the open source community, or is their relationship with the RIAA more important than "microsoft 3 devs"?