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Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according to YouTube (www.jeffgeerling.com)

submitted 1 week ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.zip

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"this morning, as I was finishing up work on a video about a new mini Pi cluster, I got a cheerful email from YouTube saying my video on LibreELEC on the Pi 5 was removed because it promoted:

Dangerous or Harmful Content Content that describes how to get unauthorized or free access to audio or audiovisual content, software, subscription services, or games that usually require payment isn't allowed on YouTube.

I never described any of that stuff, only how to self-host your own media library.

This wasn't my first rodeo—in October last year, I got a strike for showing people how to install Jellyfin!

In that case, I was happy to see my appeal granted within an hour of the strike being placed on the channel. (Nevermind the fact the video had been live for over two years at that point, with nary a problem!)

So I thought, this case will be similar:

The video's been up for over a year, without issue

The video's had over half a million views

The video doesn't promote or highlight any tools used to circumvent copyright, get around paid subscriptions, or reproduce any content illegally

Slam-dunk, right? Well, not according to whomever reviewed my appeal. Apparently self-hosted open source media library management is harmful.

Who knew open source software could be so subversive?"

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[–] FreedomAdvocate 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wouldn’t surprise me if they started cracking down on anything regarding XBMC/Kodi/LibreElec/Plex/etc because let’s be real here - almost 100% of the time it’s done to serve up pirated media. Plex are trying to make a bit of plausible deniability by hosting their own media for users, but everyone knows why you set these things up.

If they are, that’s just one more shitty thing Google are doing that should hopefully make people rethink using YouTube, and hopefully a competitor can gain some ground.

If it was just some stupid rogue employees decision to give him this strike, well again I hope it makes people rethink using YouTube and Google things.

[–] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

it can also be seen as breaking anti monopoly laws ( or equivalent) ; many people depend on these services to get free stuff, but these are the tools to create competitors.

Setting up a large video stream service is definitely different from the above tools. But small interconnected services in their thousands are probably the stuff of nightmares for any self respecting you tube middle management type

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Love this guy's channel. It's one of those calming ones that I watch even though I may have no intention of ever doing what it's about (retro game corps is the other one where I ogle those beautiful little handhelds then never set up my steam deck for retro stuff properly).