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 ### Adding support for a new site
 
-If you want to add support for a new site, you can follow this quick list (assuming your service is called `yourextractor`):
+If you want to add support for a new site, first of all **make sure** this site is **not dedicated to [copyright infringement](#can-you-add-support-for-this-anime-video-site-or-site-which-shows-current-movies-for-free)**. youtube-dl does **not support** such sites thus pull requests adding support for them **will be rejected**.
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+After you have ensured this site is distributing it's content legally, you can follow this quick list (assuming your service is called `yourextractor`):
 
 1. [Fork this repository](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/fork)
 2. Check out the source code with `git clone git@github.com:YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME/youtube-dl.git`