Comment on Jeff Geerling: Self-hosting your own media considered harmful (updated). Youtube removed his content, saying that self hosting content is "dangerous or harmful content"

• Schlemmy@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yeah. That’s illegal in lots of countries.

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  • TonyOstrich@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    But it is legal in the country he lives in as well as the country YouTube is headquartered in.

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    • Schlemmy@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Is it? I’m not totally sure, as I’m not from the US but I think the DMCA is the nasty player in this game.

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      • TonyOstrich@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Technically I’m half right and half wrong (I think). It’s not illegal to backup media that one owns, but it is illegal to break DRM/copy protection which is required to rip most physical media these days.

        Suffice to say the legality of it is a cluster fuck, but the morality, in my opinion, is pretty clear. Fuck the corpos.

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      • anzo@programming.dev ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        True. www.copyright.gov/1201/2018/faqs.html

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  • couldbealeotard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    A lot of people don’t realise that the application of the VCR was technically copyright infringement, especially so when you lent tapes to your friends.

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