Someone doesn’t like the idea of people being able to save unapproved content before it is scrubbed.
RIAA Obtains Subpoenas Targeting 40 YouTube-Ripping Platforms and Pirate Sites
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#22Are these people actually dumb? You have the economic crisis of a lifetime and you decide to put hold on the free circuses.
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
My cousin lives in a place with shitty internet, and regularly creates a list of YT URLs for later downloading when they go in-town. This is going to devastate them. Especially when they need to repair something or do maintenance where a rando’s video is 100x better than the manufacturer’s instructions and they download all the videos. I do the same thing before a flight or train ride (Canada has $5-$10/gb wireless p…
Maybe Starlink one day?
Starlink might solve the issue of providing internet to far-flung places, which is great. But I'm skeptical they'll be able to massively undercut all of the telecom providers. Building, launching and maintaining a satellite constellation isn't cheap; it's still a question as to whether the economics will work at all.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
My cousin lives in a place with shitty internet, and regularly creates a list of YT URLs for later downloading when they go in-town. This is going to devastate them. Especially when they need to repair something or do maintenance where a rando’s video is 100x better than the manufacturer’s instructions and they download all the videos. I do the same thing before a flight or train ride (Canada has $5-$10/gb wireless p…
> Canada has $5-$10/gb wireless pricing Well, if you are counting overage charges I guess. My (national) provider has an all-in, bring-your-own-device plan with 9GB of data (recently with a 2GB bonus, for a total of 11GB) for under $60/month. I'm sure the competitors are similar. So, while not perfect, it's not as onerous as you describe.
Here in .it I have 30gb/month in LTE for 5.99€/month (fixed price).
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#26There is hope that one of the fresh billionaires takes an axe at the RIAA and other abusive organisations and brings hope to all artists that are being exploited by labels, lawyers and organisations like RIAA.
>hope to all artists that are being exploited by labels
The article mentions targetted tracks by Beyonce and The Killers. Are these artists speaking out against the RIAA, or are they onboard? If it's the latter, it will be hard to fix.
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#27Do mid level YouTube channels care about this? I’d like to hear what the upcoming generation of creators think.
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#28Well, the download video helper has still escaped it for now. Good news given how useful it is, but for how long?
This is were a decentralized internet would shine, but youtube-dl is already not so friendly to use for the average joe, so I'm not expecting him to be able to browse IFPS any time soon.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Canada has $5-$10/gb wireless pricing Well, if you are counting overage charges I guess. My (national) provider has an all-in, bring-your-own-device plan with 9GB of data (recently with a 2GB bonus, for a total of 11GB) for under $60/month. I'm sure the competitors are similar. So, while not perfect, it's not as onerous as you describe.
Here in .it I have 30gb/month in LTE for 5.99€/month (fixed price).
Yeah, Canada is definitely behind the times. Some of that can be attributed to our vast land area making infrastructure buildout expensive, but some of it is also due to our telecoms having a government supported monopoly. It's getting better though, at least in my opinion. I'm paying less today than I was just a few years ago, for far more data.
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#30There is hope that one of the fresh billionaires takes an axe at the RIAA and other abusive organisations and brings hope to all artists that are being exploited by labels, lawyers and organisations like RIAA.
> hope to all artists that are being exploited by labels The article mentions targetted tracks by Beyonce and The Killers. Are these artists speaking out against the RIAA, or are they onboard? If it's the latter, it will be hard to fix.
Correct
A lot of artists are totally in favour of internet censorship if it means they will make more money.
See the recent "surprise" when a FlwMac song became "viral" again on Tiktok since they had been doing all they could to keep it off youtube even when they had the choice of being paid for it Well no crap Sherlock
20 years of losing the battle and RIAA makes a point of reminding people how petty they are