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  • Honestly sounds like a glitch. Never heard of this before and from a quick search, I don't see anyone else having this issue. Did this by any chance happen in 2022 summer-autumn? At that time youtube was modifying it's dispute system and how many days it can take, which could have resulted in some oversight for some who were already in the process of it.

    Claimants have 30 days to respond, after which it is automatically thrown out and your video should be good to go. The 7 day thing applies to counter-claims and escalation, not standart disputes, so 30+7 days(x*), but not months of just waiting.

    I initially uploaded it on March 30th, 2021. YouTube still shows that as the upload date for the video, and I'm stuck on my phone at the moment, so I'll look to see if I can find a date for the claim updates later to sate my own curiosity, but that's recent enough that I trust my memory of it being months, plural. I got an email about the claim that day, disputed it, got a copyright strike the next day, disputed THAT... And was eventually approved. I don't have another email about that video saying it was approved or dropped or anything, until there was another claim (after apparently a manual review) on February 9th of 2023, resulting in a regional block.

    So maybe it was because I disputed the actual strike and not just the initial claim?

    Not that I'm complaining at you. I'm just surprised. I thought this was typical. Though I was annoyed at YouTube. I thought the video could've done a little better on YouTube than it did in Vimeo if I pointed people there instead, you know? (100-ish on YouTube now vs 30k on Vimeo those months earlier. But it was a timely video.)

    But thanks for the insight. I appreciate it.

  • That would defeat the entire purpose of sensationalist headlines and blowing up a Google search as a "deep investigation" which is this channel's main source of attention.

    They want the clicks on YouTube. Moving to PeerTube would be great if they just wanted the information to be out there, but that's not their primary concern.

    Undeniably he gets more clicks for this. However, would you deny somebody their own soapbox when they're getting fucked by the system? He is using his leverage to call out the bullshit DMCA system that YouTube has in place which allows anybody to fuck with anybody. And in this case he's bringing to light a giant Goliath of a company Bloomberg for fucking with his few person team, and for YouTube for making it the default.

  • We live in a society... What makes you think he'd even have a channel if he didn't need money?

    Most of anything exist because people need money for food. Companies, technology, stuff. If people didn't need money the channel most likely wouldn't exist since stuff largely wouldn't exist.

    That isn't true though, plenty of people engage in creative endevours just for the pleasure of it.

    Maybe this channel wouldn't but as soon as it started relying on other people and platforms there was always the risk those wouldn't align with the creative message and something would have to give.

  • Aw, don't you love searching for an update on something just for the algorithm to show you a low view count video that's a mediocre computer voice talking over a barely related slideshow?

    I fucking hate this!

    I have a lynx spider I’ve been watching go from a tiny little green thing that was missing 2 legs to a 2inch gorgeous ambush predator that catches honeybees. I checked YT to see videos of what it looks like when these spiders actually catch their meals. It was all AI slop; either fake AI voiceovers or fake AI generated videos that of spiders that don’t actually exist.

    It’s so fucking stupid!

  • Maybe they can finally get a real job?
    😻

    Bloomberg is that you ?

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    The actual title of the video is:

    Our GPU Black Market Documentary Has Been Taken Down by Bloomberg

    Way less Click Bait sounding. And while a shitty thing for Bloomberg to do it is not any different than what tons of channels have been dealing with for years. So the Youtube sky is not falling any faster now than it was last week.

  • Just because it's being normalized by the Linuses and Tech Jesuses on youtube doesn't mean we shouldn't call it what it is.

    This video is click bait and the content is rather mid. We're clearly supposed to feel some kind of outrage over a freedom of press kinda thing, but in reality the video is more like: waaah our ad revenue took a hit on this one video because of Big Evil Company abusing the copyright claim system, NOT FAIR! (Ignoring that this has been happening hundreds if not thousands of times per day for over a decade to much smaller channels than GamersNexus, without a peep from Tech Jesus on the issue).

    I’m actually on your side. I was bringing up those questions to question why they would get upset with be gently applying clickbait label.

    Usually fans of these channels fall in line with the rhetoric.

    But once again, I tried a conversation style that failed when I didn’t get a response from who I was talking to, and I got downvotes.

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    Sure, then post it on peertube.

  • Isn't this a bit disingenuous to why they originally started to change the algorithm though?

    People figured it out and started abusing it by spinning up proxy websites that would just link to the sites they wanted higher up in the rankings. You could argue Google only became an advertising company so that they could regulate that whilst also taking a slice.

    I'm not arguing that they've since lost their way though.

    SEO used to be a fulltime job.

  • The actual title of the video is:

    Our GPU Black Market Documentary Has Been Taken Down by Bloomberg

    Way less Click Bait sounding. And while a shitty thing for Bloomberg to do it is not any different than what tons of channels have been dealing with for years. So the Youtube sky is not falling any faster now than it was last week.

    A copyright strike is a little bit more serious than a content id match, fwiw.

  • Yeh, absolutely.
    The DMCA takedown works because music/film industry execs have previously gone after YouTube for not responding to legitimate copyright infringements.
    So YouTube now favours the person claiming the strike and makes it very difficult for the defendant to exonerate themselves.

    Changing how they publish will sidestep YouTube overplaying.
    But YouTube has revenue split with content creators, and has an absolutely massive audience with discovery algorithms and community stuff. Moving away from that platform would be an insane move

    Well I didn't mean not publishing on YouTube completely because we know that's not possible at this point in time, I meant like having an archive of their own videos accesible via Torrent... Kinda like how some let's players are doing by putting their uncensored versions on Patreon (with swearing and stuff) or early access to their content, but in this case, putting the YouTube version in a torrent in case some shit like this happens so the access is not lost forever.

    Like, not choosing only one way of publishing or another, just casting a wider net.

  • Well I didn't mean not publishing on YouTube completely because we know that's not possible at this point in time, I meant like having an archive of their own videos accesible via Torrent... Kinda like how some let's players are doing by putting their uncensored versions on Patreon (with swearing and stuff) or early access to their content, but in this case, putting the YouTube version in a torrent in case some shit like this happens so the access is not lost forever.

    Like, not choosing only one way of publishing or another, just casting a wider net.

    Oh, gotcha.
    I'm pretty sure they have a patreon.
    They ran a Kickstarter to fund the production of this specific 3h episode, and all levels of backers got a USB key with a copy of the video on it.

    The issue isn't it being deleted. It won't disappear.

    The issue is the contents potentially not reaching as many new viewers unaware of Nvidias shady behaviour and how the black market of GPUs actual works because Bloomberg (who have sponsorship from Nvidia) DMCAd the video.
    Either because their articles were used as a source and the text of those articles were shown on screen (potentially reducing views those articles would have received if they were linked? Or something? No idea how you would provide a snapshot of the information as it was at the time of publishing the video, tho. Cause the article could be edited after GNs video was published, making any soft references meaningless).
    Or because they used some of Bloombergs video of POTUS, which (in my understanding) cannot be copyrighted.

    So to me, it seems like GNs video was frivolously DMCAd to reduce its impact on Nvidia.
    The impact of that DMCA is that: as it was starting to trend it gets taken offline for ~10 days. After which, YouTube's algorithm will be unlikely to promote it via its algorithm because it hasn't had any new views for 10 days.
    Effectively killing the video.
    Gamers Nexus gets a "strike" against their channel (of which they get 3).
    Bloomberg has 0 repercussions.

    Unless we all kick up enough fuss to cause some repercussions, and support GN enough to get the exposé trending again.

  • The actual title of the video is:

    Our GPU Black Market Documentary Has Been Taken Down by Bloomberg

    Way less Click Bait sounding. And while a shitty thing for Bloomberg to do it is not any different than what tons of channels have been dealing with for years. So the Youtube sky is not falling any faster now than it was last week.

    It's not uncommon for titles to change over the first few hours after a release (A-B testing). I've seen the title as posted by the OP yesterday on my feed.

  • Messy. Youtube could just refuse to serve his videos because they decide they don't want to 😕

    They have more lawyers than God, I can't help but think the contract they all have with Google favors Google to the extreme.

    Yeh, exactly.
    It's a private company.
    It's a huge platform, but YouTube can choose what YouTube is.

    The only way any change happens is if YouTube gets raked over the coals by enough content producers (that they could collectively start their own platform) by media and potentially by governments (recognising them as some sort of critical communications or something and implementing regulations?).
    Or if all the YouTube viewers decide they have had enough and go elsewhere (where, tho? Kinda goes hand-in-hand with creators starting their own platform).

    So the pressure needs to keep building, YouTube needs to keep doing shitty things. Eventually... Hopefully?... Something changes: YouTube gets better, a new platform is born.

  • "small."

    Make no mistake. Gamers Nexus is a multi million dollar company.

    Sure, Bloomberg is much, much bigger. But while gamers Nexus is the underdog, it's not the toothless underdog. That little fucker will bite in bloomberg's ankles before it dies and tbf: it looks like it's already yapping and took it's first bite.

    What’s the difference between a million dollars and a billion dollars?

    Answer: roughly a billion dollars.

    Being a million-dollar company means nothing against a company where a million dollars can count as little more than a rounding error.

  • Yeh, exactly.
    It's a private company.
    It's a huge platform, but YouTube can choose what YouTube is.

    The only way any change happens is if YouTube gets raked over the coals by enough content producers (that they could collectively start their own platform) by media and potentially by governments (recognising them as some sort of critical communications or something and implementing regulations?).
    Or if all the YouTube viewers decide they have had enough and go elsewhere (where, tho? Kinda goes hand-in-hand with creators starting their own platform).

    So the pressure needs to keep building, YouTube needs to keep doing shitty things. Eventually... Hopefully?... Something changes: YouTube gets better, a new platform is born.

    We need monetization in peertube, and peertube to have community tools like (or exceeding) lemmy.

    I think it's a pretty low bar, but it's not just going to happen without massive interest

  • People with enough of a viewership would still be offered sponsorship for videos. Like YouTubers who do their own ads in videos.

    Lots of times the sponsorship is a free product (that doesn’t pay the bills) but larger channels that have several million subscribers have the leverage to ask for thousands of dollars for a sponsorship.

  • You can easily get three strikes in a few moments with frivolous takedown

    So what you're basically saying is that any YouTube channel since the dawn of the DMCA has been permanently in the status of "Our Channel Could Be Deleted". That's... not exactly news is it? What makes the GamersNexus case special?

    What's different is they are being targeted.

  • Why is it a big deal? Don’t you agree with Linus that clickbait is just part of the game, and we should accept the sensational thumbnails and titles? Hate the game, not the player and all that?

    I don't think it's clickbait. if you made a company angry, it's not that hard to get another 2 strikes too now that they are watching more closely, and it's very hard if not impossible to get back a channel from that.

  • I’m actually on your side. I was bringing up those questions to question why they would get upset with be gently applying clickbait label.

    Usually fans of these channels fall in line with the rhetoric.

    But once again, I tried a conversation style that failed when I didn’t get a response from who I was talking to, and I got downvotes.

    sorry, not everyone is browsing lemmy as if it was a full time job. also I'm not a fan of them in that sense. Maybe I have watched 3 of their videos and even that was years ago. I just understand that copyright strikes are very dangerous even for a big channel like that, because independently of how many videos you have, it's always only 3 strikes you need to get your channel deleted, and if they are mad and start looking it could easily happen.

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