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YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Videos, and More

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Re: YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Videos, and More

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Post by icebraining »

no_wizard wrote: post #174
gnulinux wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think RSS is a vastly underused technology/tool. I wonder at what point people lost hope in it and abandoned. Not to say, it's completely abandoned, but it's not used as much as it should be used.

I personally feel like and I remember very distinctly that RSS (and Atom Feeds to boot) seemingly hit their peak with google reader and when google reader was discontinued RSS seemed to wane quickly thereafter. I’d be very interested in knowing if hard statistics back this up or not but my anecdotal experience suggests that this is indeed the case

I think Twitter's coming of age was the big blow. When Reader shut down it was already waning.

Re: YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Videos, and More

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Post by icebraining »

JackCh wrote: post #122
narrator wrote: post #85

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There's also bitchute.com and d.tube as credible youtube alternatives.

Very annoyingly youtube-dl refuses to support bitchute for reasons that aren't exactly clear: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/14052 If I can't get data off bitchute easily using de facto standard tools (I get that I could use a bittorrent client, but that's beyond the point), I have little interest in putting data on it.

Doesn't seem so? Seems to me that some user @tv21 was arguing against it for some reason, and @dstftw locked the conversation to avoid the argument. The issue is still open, implying it's free to be worked on. Has anyone submitted a PR?

Re: YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Videos, and More

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Post by Natanael_L »

BlackFly wrote: post #182
kartan wrote: post #137

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> The Article stipulates that platforms should “prevent the availability” of protected works, suggesting these ISSPs will need to adopt technology that can recognise and filter work created by someone other than the person uploading it. But there is no requirement that at the same time protects fair use. To remove content just in case has no negative consequences. > Article 13 is “incompatible with the guarantee of f…

> This looks like a one-sided law. Yet the law says: > Those measures, such as the use of effective content recognition technologies, shall be appropriate and proportionate. Ignoring fair use is neither appropriate nor proportionate. Also, taking someone's works down falsely would be a violation of this same article, since the content provider is obligated to > take measures to ensure the functioning of agreements co…

It's never going to be enforced in that way, though. It would just take too many lawyers to cover your ass if you tried that as a host.

Re: YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Videos, and More

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Post by icebraining »

pitaj wrote: post #77
_bxg1 wrote: post #58

I don't understand why no other video platform has broken into YouTube's market share, after the last couple years' constant stream of PR disasters which mostly have to do with the scale of the platform

It's expensive at least partially because publishers will sue the crap out of you if you don't invest heavily in content ID etc. It creates a huge barrier to entry, which is why copyright laws should be reformed to respect the idea of "common carrier" sites which don't discriminate on content.

(US) Copyright law does have that idea, the DMCA encodes it explicitly as the "safe harbor" provision.

Re: YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Videos, and More

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Post by Natanael_L »

gm-conspiracy wrote: post #159
kartan wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The Article stipulates that platforms should “prevent the availability” of protected works, suggesting these ISSPs will need to adopt technology that can recognise and filter work created by someone other than the person uploading it. But there is no requirement that at the same time protects fair use. To remove content just in case has no negative consequences. > Article 13 is “incompatible with the guarantee of f…

What do most EU citizens have as far as upload bandwidth and the cost for that?

100/10 Mbps is a very common baseline in large parts of Europe. Some only has 10/1 (often old people on old contracts), some has gigabit speeds. Prices vary between countries a lot, often $10-20 for the cheaper options, rarely above $100-150 for gigabit (when available). Usually no data caps on home internet.

Re: YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Videos, and More

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Post by BlackFly »

Natanael_L wrote: post #193
BlackFly wrote: post #182

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> This looks like a one-sided law. Yet the law says: > Those measures, such as the use of effective content recognition technologies, shall be appropriate and proportionate. Ignoring fair use is neither appropriate nor proportionate. Also, taking someone's works down falsely would be a violation of this same article, since the content provider is obligated to > take measures to ensure the functioning of agreements co…

It's never going to be enforced in that way, though. It would just take too many lawyers to cover your ass if you tried that as a host.

Obviously you cannot just allow copyright infringement because you are a small content provider. However, this particular article would not apply to you. You would have the ordinary duties already in law. Once you start to be large, then this article places an obligation on you to work with copyright holders directly in an appropriate and proportionate amount.

Other than misreading or ignoring parts of the law, I don't really see how it is unreasonable.

Re: YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Videos, and More

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Post by tylll »

haywirez wrote: post #20

As you might know, this is related to the disastrous EU copyright reform directive proposal that would mandate such filters put in place everywhere. Please don't be complacent, it's very important to do something about this. At risk of repeating my comment[0] from 3 days ago, I'd like to appeal to you to contact the MEPs that will vote on Wednesday in the EU's JURI committee. This was the first time I called politici…

check link https://bit.ly/2JTdt8x
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