Self-hosting your own media considered harmful - I just received my second community guidelines violation for my video demonstrating the use of LibreELEC on a Raspberry Pi 5, for 4K video playback
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Maybe stop relying on fucking youtube?
Who, Jeff? He made a whole video a while back about how he doesn't rely on YouTube, and is also on Floatplane. However, he acknowledges that a lot of viewers can't afford a subscription service, and YT has a massive reach, so he still uploads there, too.
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Notably, Youtube does not consider exploiting children for profit harmful.
I made a very similar joke like this on Reddit, except it was about Waymo, and Reddit issued a warning against my account threatening a permanent ban.
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The problem is that LibreELEC is piracy-adjacent. So you get these bogus take-downs because different people draw the line differently, and fighting a legal battle is 1000x as expensive as the outcome is worth to most people.
Using the Internet is piracy adjacent, by your hypothesis.
That's just bullshit.
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Notably, Youtube does not consider exploiting children for profit harmful.
Harmful is just code for "threatens the bottom line of multibillion dollar companies". There is no relation to anything that matters to real people.
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you say in the video that you use this setup to watch YouTube. I love watching YouTube with Kodi as it shows no ads. I guess they don't love that.
I'm not saying that justifies the strike, but it might be connected
I love watching YouTube with Kodi as it shows no ads. I guess they don’t love that.
This scene from A Clockwork Orange is how I view Google's attitude of entitlement when it comes to exposing people to ads.
No sir, you don't have the freedom to decide what gets displayed on your screens and even if you don't block ads, you must not ignore them or put the volume on mute while they play.
Are those ads promoting scams? Are those ads delivering malware to your computer? Stiff shit buddy! You must view the ads.
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I'm a fan of PeerTube, but it's.. rough. Discoverability is subpar and many instances are bandwidth constrained. Video streaming is still a bulk-hosting game unfortunately.
Not to mention if you primarily watch videos on your TV you're out of luck.
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YouTube pulled a popular tutorial video from tech creator Jeff Geerling this week, claiming his guide to installing LibreELEC on a Raspberry Pi 5 violated policies against "harmful content." The video, which showed viewers how to set up their own home media servers, had been live for over a year and racked up more than 500,000 views. YouTube's automated systems flagged the content for allegedly teaching people "how to get unauthorized or free access to audio or audiovisual content."
Geerling says his tutorial covered only legal self-hosting of media people already own -- no piracy tools or copyright workarounds. He said he goes out of his way to avoid mentioning popular piracy software in his videos. It's the second time YouTube has pulled a self-hosting content video from Geerling. Last October, YouTube removed his Jellyfin tutorial, though that decision was quickly reversed after appeal. This time, his appeal was denied.
Everyone who is capable of hosting a peertube instance should do so, even if it's just to host your own content. I know, "it will never replace youtube" but if as many people as possible use it and share bandwidth between each other we will at least have SOMETHING in terms of a youtube alternative.
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Using the Internet is piracy adjacent, by your hypothesis.
That's just bullshit.
Not my hypothesis. And it is just bullshit, but if you pay attention, they have made similar runs at taxing and controlling the internet periodically since the 1990s.
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I made a very similar joke like this on Reddit, except it was about Waymo, and Reddit issued a warning against my account threatening a permanent ban.
Let them. Trust me, you'll feel much better
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In the 1970s/80s, the corporations just taxed blank media - because it was obviously used to pirate their warez.
70s?
My governmentthe private for-profit corporation tasked by my government to manage copyrights, every year still steals from everyone millions of euro "because that phone can be used to watch pirated content"We pay 7 euro on each smartphone, 7.50 on each USB drive, up to 18 euro on each internal drive (sata or name, but under 160gb is free) and products are castrated with regional firmware because if it's just a TV then it's 4 euro tax, but if it allows recording it's the 5% of MSRP
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70s?
My governmentthe private for-profit corporation tasked by my government to manage copyrights, every year still steals from everyone millions of euro "because that phone can be used to watch pirated content"We pay 7 euro on each smartphone, 7.50 on each USB drive, up to 18 euro on each internal drive (sata or name, but under 160gb is free) and products are castrated with regional firmware because if it's just a TV then it's 4 euro tax, but if it allows recording it's the 5% of MSRP
7.50 on each USB drive
Ouch!
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7.50 on each USB drive
Ouch!
It depends by the size (smaller is less taxed), but the law is old and it's exempt only if under 1gb
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