Comment on Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according to YouTube
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 5 days ago
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 5 days 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