The video they made does not encourage piracy, but even if it did it seems bizarre to flag that as "Dangerous or Harmful Content."
I mean, there is a risk that the feds would come down on you if you're not careful. ;)
Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according to YouTube
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#462I purposefully avoid demonstrating any of the tools (with a suffix that rhymes with "car") that are popularly used to circumvent purchasing movie, TV, and other media content, or any tools that automatically slurp up YouTube content. Can't figure out what tool Jeff is writing about.
Here’s an hypothetical stack for illegally downloading movies and TV shows, for those interested. They all run on Docker: - QBittorrent: torrent client - Prowlarr: offers an API to torrent search services, connects to qbittorrent - Sonarr: uses Prowlarr to search latest episodes of TV shows, submits torrent file to QBittorrent for download, neatly categorises the completed file - Radarr: the same as above, but for mo…
Some to add
-Plex or Jellyfin: Netflix like interface to organize and watch your content.
-Overseerr: Managing your movie and tv show requests for you and people you share your media with. Works with Radarr/Sonarr/etc.
-Watchlistarr: syncs your Plex Watchlist with Overseerr.
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#463Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's always funny seeing Americans who have clearly got their news about the UK from questionable sources telling us how actually we live in a dystopian open-air prison. In the US, you have people being literally grabbed off the street and sent to foreign prisons because of their speech with no due process, but the UK is the one close to a loss of freedom of speech because checks notes you can be convicted in a court…
I also live in the UK, and I in fact care about both of these. "Things are worse in America" is a tired and harmful cliché frequently used to deflect valid complaints about affairs here. Is the Trump administration really the low bar we're happy with? And I'm afraid we're long past the point of dismissing police and state overreach into freedom of expression as an "American/right-wing myth". The Julian Foulkes case […
> "I am pleased that Kent Police has apologised to him and removed the caution from his record."
This is bad, but corrective action was taken. You can look through the news in pretty much any country and find some examples of the police abusing their power or arresting people for stupid reasons. That doesn’t mean that it isn’t bad or that it’s not worth drawing attention to. But cherry picking these kinds of incidents can give people outside the UK a deeply misleading picture of what life is actually like here (see e.g. the green account posting elsewhere in this thread for one example).
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#464Reading through all this has been eye-opening with so many thoughtful comments that made me think, even if some parts are a bit discouraging. I’ve been toying with the idea of jumping on the content creation wagon with storytelling, vlogging life experiences, that sort of thing, but now I’m wondering: Is it still worth building on YouTube if there’s a real risk of getting banned later for unknowingly crossing some un…
Just take care to backup all your videos, then you can always go elsewhere, or possibly just start a new channel with a new account.
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#465Earlier quoted context omitted.
I explicitly said that the UK wasn't free of issues: my pointing out the US was worse wasn't defending our own, simply making the point that some Americans tend to massively exaggerate the UK's issues while pretending the US doesn't have any. Average people from the UK are going to assume that any pushback on speech controls is nutters if the message comes with absurd exaggerations and outright lies. There are legiti…
> …while pretending the US doesn't have any. As far as I can tell, the comment you replied to did not do any such thing.
They’re referring to the comment upthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44198428
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#466There was a recent drama in the drum'n'bass community because someone kept claiming they owned the rights to music that wasn't actually theres, resulting in some classic dnb music from the 90s by Peshay repeatedly being taken down from YouTube. It's utterly ridiculous how trivially bad actors can wreak havoc like this.
The problem is that for some strange reason there is no punishment for malicious/false copyright claims.
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#467Reading through all this has been eye-opening with so many thoughtful comments that made me think, even if some parts are a bit discouraging. I’ve been toying with the idea of jumping on the content creation wagon with storytelling, vlogging life experiences, that sort of thing, but now I’m wondering: Is it still worth building on YouTube if there’s a real risk of getting banned later for unknowingly crossing some un…
You can make a living with content creation without giving your stuff away to Youtube. See the many bloggers and such that are posted around here
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#468Earlier quoted context omitted.
Since Swedish policy during covid, produced by medical professionals and researchers, was contrary to US policy during covid, this kind of information was also removed. You do not have this kind of disagreement within the professional field with bomb making materials. Pandemic prevention is an on-going research topic where a lot of different professionals has wild difference in views and approaches, and the meta stud…
Sweden is widely recognized as the example to absolutely not follow in handling pandemics. N95s (and above) definitely work, so does filtered air. But sweden has a long standing history of eugenics
That's your perspective. What if I were to demand it be silenced and only opinions praising its policy were shown?
Let's talk it over in the open, it's not perfect but it's the best way.
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#469Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is, technically. It's perjury to file a false DMCA claim. In practice nobody gets pursued for it for several reasons: * Filing a counterclaim means handing the DMCA filer all your personal information (note that the entity filing the DMCA can and often has the ability to get this info redacted on their side of the equation unless you file a counterclaim), so a lot of people simply don't do it because you're han…
Laws that are not enforced are merely suggestions.
There are literally dozens of successful legal actions against people illicitly making copyright claims on YouTube.
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#470I'd be more than happy to get the 10€/month I am not giving to YouTube and send it to Jeff if he completely moved out of it. I know that he is already on Floatplane, but we all know that Google is not working with the best interests of its users/creators in mind, so "criticism" of YouTube while making money there seems hypocritical.
But if you're following 30 channels, would you be happy to give out 300€/month? There's just not enough people willing to do that to make it sustainable for creators.