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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.

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[-] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 3 points 1 month ago

This kind of crap is driving popular creators, like Geerling, to move to other places. YT / Alphabet has lost the plot.

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

Yep. Most of my favorite creators are on Nebula now.

The ones that aren't get watched on SmartTube or in Brave Browser.

[-] glimse@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I love Nebula. I go there to watch Nebula Exclusives but it's not great for browsing or discovering new channels...I found everyone I subscribe to on YouTube first

[-] brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

Nebula

Closed source, centralized and not even free...

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 month ago

Hypocritical Lemmy.... Preaching (F) OSS and then using Brave.... LoL!

[-] coolmojo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Brave is open source and using MPL license which is the same license Firefox is using. I am not using or recommending Brave to anyone.

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 month ago

I will flat out shut down any Brave user simply because it tried to push crypto.
No thanks :)

[-] coolmojo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Not just crypto, they were diverting ad revenue from websites to themselves, collecting unsolicited donations for content creators without their consent, suggesting affiliate links in the address bar and installing a paid VPN service without the user's consent. Don’t forget they had a “bug” in Tor which sent all DNS queries to your ISP instead of routing it through tor and also weak fingerprint protection. Not to mention the political affiliation of the CEO. But it IS open source.

[-] TheGreenWizard@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Notably, Youtube does not consider exploiting children for profit harmful.

[-] SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 1 points 1 month ago

Harmful is just code for "threatens the bottom line of multibillion dollar companies". There is no relation to anything that matters to real people.

[-] moseschrute@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[-] qevlarr@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Let them. Trust me, you'll feel much better

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

“how to get unauthorized or free access to audio or audiovisual content.”

In the future, public domain media will be banned for harming corporate profits.

[-] MangoCats@feddit.it 1 points 1 month ago

In the 1970s/80s, the corporations just taxed blank media - because it was obviously used to pirate their warez.

[-] oz1sej@feddit.dk 0 points 1 month ago

The video is up again:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hFas54xFtg

But at some point, he shows he's moving some files to LibreELEC, and he has a folder called "Chernobyl" - how can that possibly be legal, if the folder actually contains files with the HBO show of the same name? Just asking because I'm curious 😊

[-] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 month ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_(miniseries)

It was released on DVD and Blu-ray, if he purchased the disc and ripped it to his media, and hasn't shared those files with anyone, then it is legal, as an exception to copyright in the US, where Jeff and Google are both based.

Jeff has stated on multiple occasions that he purchases and rips his media, and does not use piracy.

[-] Tiger666@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 month ago

Ripping is illegal as well. DVD and BlueRay decoders are highly illegal.

[-] rezifon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

This is incorrect in the US. Ripping DVD and Blu-ray media for personal use has been part of the fair use doctrine since 2015.

[-] db2@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Sue YouTube. They won't change meaningfully until forced to.

[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Sue for defamation that Youtube are alleging he is promoting criminal activity of piracy.

[-] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 2 points 1 month ago

YouTube didn’t publicly make that claim though, so they haven’t done any defamation.

[-] drmoose@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

People are quick to burn Youtube here when its clearly the american copyright reach that causes this.

[-] nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 month ago

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

[-] REDACTED@infosec.pub -3 points 1 month ago

Didn't they recently greenlight adblocker advertising?

[-] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 month ago

Maybe stop relying on fucking youtube?

[-] itslola@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] Zwrt@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 month ago

Are you suggesting that a guide on how to leave youtube should be elsewhere?

Thats like requiring to pass an exam to get access to the textbook.

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