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Re: They're deleting my channel, but they don't know why? [video]

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Post by abetlen »

notacoward wrote: post #50
RandallBrown wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As far as I know, covers aren't fair use. https://www.legalzoom.com/articles/posting-cover-songs-on-yo... Thousands (millions?) of people post covers on YouTube with no issue, but sometimes people get unlucky. I don't think monetization makes a difference in the eyes of the law (maybe it would for proving damages? I'm not a lawyer.) What's unusual is that he said he got 5 copyright strikes without telling him why. I'…

Covers might not be fair use, but teaching is. https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#107

This is true, but won't help very much either. According to Google Support [1], they don't decide what is or is not fair use, leaving it up to the courts. This means the default position is that nothing is fair use unless the content creator is willing to go through the expensive process of proving it.

Funny enough, they cite a case where a content creator (h3h3 productions) was able to prove fair use in court as an example of the system working. If you look into that case though you'll see that the claimant was only an individual musician and not a big studio, and even then the legal fees were hundreds of thousands of dollars.

[1] https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/1281991?hl=en

Re: They're deleting my channel, but they don't know why? [video]

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Post by renewiltord »

read_if_gay_ wrote: post #29
bdcravens wrote: post #8

Probably time to seek another monetization strategy. The person behind Piano in 21 Days has been incredibly successful doing this: https://theonlinecourseguy.com/

Is this actually an online course about selling online courses?

Standard Get Rich Quick™ formula. They all churn out the same thing. Buy my book, my course, my whatever. It'll make you rich.

Re: They're deleting my channel, but they don't know why? [video]

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Post by fwip »

austinkhale wrote: post #16
mieko wrote: post #11

As someone who has been responsible for large cloud budgets, I wonder if Google is aware that their "support strategy" toward both content creators/contractors and customers across the entire brand has completely ruled out GCP for me. GCP might have great support. They may not have automated bots suspending accounts. They might actually follow the DMCA counterclaim process instead of some weird process on top of it.…

I was involved a bidding war between GCP and AWS where each was offering a healthy six figures in free credits to move our business to their cloud. GCP was offering nearly 3x as many but ultimately I didn’t want to move to a service where there was a chance offerings were going to get the axe with no warning. Their reputation has indeed hurt them — at least in one instance.

What services got the axe with no warning?

It seems like for all of the Google ex-products I can think of, they gave advance notice of at least a year.

Re: They're deleting my channel, but they don't know why? [video]

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Post by liability »

pizza234 wrote: post #51
maxwellg wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

AWS isn't a bullet to bite

I suppose he refers to the fact that GCP may be cheaper, therefore AWS may be less desirable on the strictly economical side.

Only if you forget to factor potential support problems into your economic analysis. What would your systems being down for a week because Google capriciously shut you down cost you?

Re: They're deleting my channel, but they don't know why? [video]

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Post by renewiltord »

dundercoder wrote: post #2

This is not atypical for YouTube. I had a full on paid gsuite account and when they lost my channel there was “nothing we can do”. I had the video backed up, but lost all the links, views, and subscribers.

Thanks for sharing that. Did anything happen to the remainder of your Gsuite?

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Post by gilrain »

gorkish wrote: post #56
freedomben wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree with you and it makes me even more mad that it's only the people lucky enough to get some spotlight that ever get helped. I would be the guy who nobody ever knew about that got crushed like a bug.

I am not suggesting in any way that it doesn't happen, but I do take some solace in that I have never read a story where this kind of thing wasn't ultimately resolved, whether it made a beeline straight to the mothership via an insider on HN or simply endured the protracted process of the official support channels. I'd like to know more about how often undeserved "crushed bugs" are happening.

You realize that if you've heard of the story, that means it went viral, which means it's one of the few lucky ones which get resolved by a human. You don't hear about any that don't get resolved, because the ones that don't get resolved are they ones that didn't go viral. That's the whole reason why it's so ugly and injust.

Re: They're deleting my channel, but they don't know why? [video]

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Post by CryoLogic »

deadalus wrote: post #4

Alternative Video Sites : https://lbry.tv/ https://www.dailymotion.com/ https://www.bitchute.com/ https://dlive.tv/ https://bittube.tv/

https://anim8.io for animators and animation fans - we are fully funded by fans and members vote on features and direction!

Re: They're deleting my channel, but they don't know why? [video]

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Post by jansan »

wlll wrote: post #31
deadalus wrote: post #4

Alternative Video Sites : https://lbry.tv/ https://www.dailymotion.com/ https://www.bitchute.com/ https://dlive.tv/ https://bittube.tv/

What's the audience like on those? I assume pretty small compared to YouTube.

For Bitchute you can directly compare the views of videos by Styxhexenhammer666, who seems to be most watched content creator on Bitchute. Numbers seem to be roughly 12 to 1 in favor of YouTube.

Still, we need people to start contributing to alternative platforms. The YouTube monopoly only benefits Google.

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