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Re: YouTube is taking down educational hacking videos

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Post by spookthesunset »

bsamuels wrote: post #67
spookthesunset wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What are you talking about? What niche video sites existed before YouTube? Seriously. Video on the internet wasn’t really a thing before YouTube. Give me a break...

newgrounds

So 10 second clips of grainy 300x300 cat videos stolen from broadcast tv? If you think that is all that is on YouTube, you are sadly mistaken.

Again. Give me a break. YouTube has absolutely transformed content distribution for then independent producer. We’ve never had a better age for independent content.

Re: YouTube is taking down educational hacking videos

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Post by wiseleo »

tus88 wrote: post #58

Not to be the Devil's advocate - but what's the difference between a hacking video and an educational hacking video?

You tell me...

https://youtu.be/tTl5Rl8cKy8

A skilled person will learn a lot. This is a devious attack. A curious viewer will just get a glimpse but would not be able to implement.

I learned enough to replicate this attack.

Re: YouTube is taking down educational hacking videos

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Post by root_axis »

thrwn_frthr_awy wrote: post #7

This is the consequence of monopolies. Before YouTube gobbled up the world there were great, niche video sites ran by fans of the coolest things. They are mostly gone now. It is sad. The web really used to be an adventure. I miss that part of the internet. You felt like you found these secret underground worlds where people were really into something. Now it’s different. Maybe what we have now it what is needed for c…

I think this is just rose tinted glasses. The internet was a lot smaller place in the past and by every measure there is orders of magnitude more content available today than in the 90s across the full spectrum of human affairs. Although highly visible to the individual content creators, the slivers of content that get removed from YouTube are drops in the ocean compared to the massive amount of content made available on just YouTube alone. Most people on the internet today weren't even online during the supposed golden era, and for many others today's internet is the only internet they've ever known.

Re: YouTube is taking down educational hacking videos

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Post by root_axis »

bsamuels wrote: post #67
spookthesunset wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What are you talking about? What niche video sites existed before YouTube? Seriously. Video on the internet wasn’t really a thing before YouTube. Give me a break...

newgrounds

newgrounds still exists.

https://www.newgrounds.com/collection/pico

Re: YouTube is taking down educational hacking videos

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Post by spookthesunset »

pjbk wrote: post #9
RugnirViking wrote: post #8

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Maybe it's the wrong mindset, but imo compensation is precisely why the internet stopped being like that. When people are doing things for free, there is generally a maximum to the amount of effort they will put into things. They might try to make something look nice and be slick for the end user, but they won't usually hire people or use big studios. This contributed to a culture where the very best people in the fi…

> which leads to their production becoming better and better, which leads to a better product, but less innovation. "Better" in the sense that they are more polished and edited, but unfortunately that means more filtered, targeted and biased. There is an intrinsic, authentic value in raw productions that gets lost or doesn't exist in the former.

So they all “sold out” to reach a bigger audience? Man! I used to like that band before they became popular. Now they just suck!

Sheesh...

Re: YouTube is taking down educational hacking videos

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Post by reactor4 »

spookthesunset wrote: post #66
thrwn_frthr_awy wrote: post #7

This is the consequence of monopolies. Before YouTube gobbled up the world there were great, niche video sites ran by fans of the coolest things. They are mostly gone now. It is sad. The web really used to be an adventure. I miss that part of the internet. You felt like you found these secret underground worlds where people were really into something. Now it’s different. Maybe what we have now it what is needed for c…

What are you talking about? What niche video sites existed before YouTube? Seriously. Video on the internet wasn’t really a thing before YouTube. Give me a break...

pff! stileproject for one.

Re: YouTube is taking down educational hacking videos

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Post by shadowgovt »

thrwn_frthr_awy wrote: post #7

This is the consequence of monopolies. Before YouTube gobbled up the world there were great, niche video sites ran by fans of the coolest things. They are mostly gone now. It is sad. The web really used to be an adventure. I miss that part of the internet. You felt like you found these secret underground worlds where people were really into something. Now it’s different. Maybe what we have now it what is needed for c…

Can you name three such sites? Because I'm pretty sure you might be thinking of some other media; video was expensive to host efficiently because of the file size, and it's only right around the time of the inception of YouTube that costs came down far enough and bandwidth came up far enough to enable simple video sharing.

Re: YouTube is taking down educational hacking videos

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Post by shadowgovt »

naikrovek wrote: post #27
drdeadringer wrote: post #24

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> Before YouTube gobbled up the world there were great, niche video sites ran by fans of the coolest things True Honest Question. What were these sights? I was a teenage in the 1990s. I seriously and literally do not know and now I want to.

Most were small sites that had a few videos about a specific topic, and whose videos were not optimized for search engines or anything other than the topic at hand. Why do you hear the words "hey guys" or "you guys" in virtually every YouTube video today? Because it's an approved (and extremely boring, meaningless, and effortless) way to address your audience in a non-specific manner. Internet videos had a lot more c…

Perhaps "character" is just another term for "caters to a small audience."

Re: YouTube is taking down educational hacking videos

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Post by cjpb »

dvtrn wrote: post #53
ColanR wrote: post #45

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I've been doing that for a while.

Storing locally or to your own private cloud? Could you share storage setup, I'm thinking I'm going to be doing this as well

I've been doing this for a few years now as I grew tired of video/audio getting removed without them leaving any trace of what the content was related to.

My current setup consists of several scripts on my personal server - basic CLI wrappers around "youtube-dl" (supports many sites, not just YouTube) - these scripts set my default preferences as well as the destination folder depending on the parameters passed.

Once the download is complete, the destination folder is just one of many paths scanned by my Plex instance. I can then pull up the video/audio on my television, computer or mobile device as I please.

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