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PeerTube 5.1

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Re: PeerTube 5.1

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Is there a solution to being liable for distributing illegal/immoral content as a peer on PeerTube? That's what's keeping me away.

Wouldn’t you only distribute illegal/immoral content if you were watching it? You only distribute things you yourself are streaming.

I think they might be talking about hosting a PeerTube server with open registration? And so random people might publish illegal content via their server?

Re: PeerTube 5.1

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Love PeerTube! I run an instance and use it to host my videos :)

At the moment I have only two videos on it. But that’s ok. I can put more videos on it in the future.

Re: PeerTube 5.1

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PeerTube is a decentralized and federated alternative to YouTube. The goal of PeerTube is not to replace YouTube but to offer a viable alternative using the strength of P2P and WebTorrent protocols. Being built on ActivityPub means PeerTube is able to be part of a bigger social network, the Fediverse (the Federated Universe). On the other hand, P2P technologies help PeerTube to solve the issue of money, inbound with…

Is there a solution to being liable for distributing illegal/immoral content as a peer on PeerTube? That's what's keeping me away.

> Is there a solution to being liable for distributing illegal/immoral content as a peer on PeerTube?

I believe you misunderstand the technology.

There are two components of Peertube.

The server you either self-host or you use someone else's. If you are hosting a server and you host other people's content, you register for liability protection under section 230 of the Communications Decency Act and section 512 of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act.

The client is where the "peer" in peertube comes in. If you want to be safe from liability, don't watch illegal/immoral content. You will be fine.

Re: PeerTube 5.1

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post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there a solution to being liable for distributing illegal/immoral content as a peer on PeerTube? That's what's keeping me away.

> Is there a solution to being liable for distributing illegal/immoral content as a peer on PeerTube? I believe you misunderstand the technology. There are two components of Peertube. The server you either self-host or you use someone else's. If you are hosting a server and you host other people's content, you register for liability protection under section 230 of the Communications Decency Act and section 512 of the…

> If you want to be safe from liability, don't watch illegal/immoral content. You will be fine.

This is naive. I don't necessarily know that the content is illegal until I've started playing it. By that point I may have already shared it.

Same issue with any p2p, I guess. You could start downloading a file with a harmless name and later discover it was a fake name.

Re: PeerTube 5.1

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post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wouldn’t you only distribute illegal/immoral content if you were watching it? You only distribute things you yourself are streaming.

I think they might be talking about hosting a PeerTube server with open registration? And so random people might publish illegal content via their server?

If this is a concern: don't do open registration without approval.

See also: Running a public WiFi hotspot.

Re: PeerTube 5.1

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post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Is there a solution to being liable for distributing illegal/immoral content as a peer on PeerTube? I believe you misunderstand the technology. There are two components of Peertube. The server you either self-host or you use someone else's. If you are hosting a server and you host other people's content, you register for liability protection under section 230 of the Communications Decency Act and section 512 of the…

> If you want to be safe from liability, don't watch illegal/immoral content. You will be fine. This is naive. I don't necessarily know that the content is illegal until I've started playing it. By that point I may have already shared it. Same issue with any p2p, I guess. You could start downloading a file with a harmless name and later discover it was a fake name.

In either case, I don't see any intent and therefore not any crime.

I don't think that's naive, considering that after reporting adult sites with obvious CP, the sites are still up after several years.

Re: PeerTube 5.1

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post #16
post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If you want to be safe from liability, don't watch illegal/immoral content. You will be fine. This is naive. I don't necessarily know that the content is illegal until I've started playing it. By that point I may have already shared it. Same issue with any p2p, I guess. You could start downloading a file with a harmless name and later discover it was a fake name.

In either case, I don't see any intent and therefore not any crime. I don't think that's naive, considering that after reporting adult sites with obvious CP, the sites are still up after several years.

> In either case, I don't see any intent and therefore not any crime.

Jurisdictions vary in how the justice system treats intent. You do not want to rely on lack of intent to get off the hook.

Re: PeerTube 5.1

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The sepiasearch.org API is better than YouTube search, IMHO. Would be nice if the JSON results had a key for the 11-character YouTube ID if one exists. Perhaps many videos published via YouTube will also be published via PeerTube. Also wish it was possible to "disable" use of Unicode in JSON values. As someone who searches and browses YouTube from the command line in textmode, I find the use of Unicode in YouTube titles annoying. Imagine if HN titles were filled with emojis and other garbage.

   curl -A "" "https://sepiasearch.org/api/v1/search/videos?search=test&boostLanguages[]=en&nsfw=true&start=0&count=500"

   curl -A "" "https://sepiasearch.org/api/v1/search/video-channels?search=test&start=0&count=500"

   curl -A "" "https://sepiasearch.org/api/v1/search/video-playlists?search=test&start=0&count=500"
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