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

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• jim@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I think a few folks haven’t read the article or know who Jeff Geerling is. The title of this article is confusing.

  Jeff posted a video on YT about how to self-host your own media in 2024. He recently got a violation from YT that YT considers his video to be harmful and dangerous. He appealed, got denied, but then the update is that YT removed the violation.

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  • hietsu@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Saw the video… It mentions ”ripping” and even shows clips of some blockbuster movies. No wonder any copyright-sensitive automation gets triggered pretty fast. This will only get worse.

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    • Auli@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Pretty fast? The video was uploaded in 2024.

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    • dieTasse@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think if the ripping includes de-DRM-ing it’s is illegal in a lot of countries. I am not saying it’s right, we should own our own content, I am just saying it as a fact.

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    • lka1988@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What if I decide to digitize my entire movie catalog? I would have to rip those DVDs and blurays…

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    • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      None of that is illegal. He states he purchased the media.

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• lefixxx@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah I remember once when my friends Synology started acting harmful when he run jellyfin on it. it started off gasing mustard gas. It poisoned the well and made his son addicted to zyns. The country’s GTP dropped a lot that month and the ozone layer is gone. Thank God YouTube stopped platforming such harmful content. Too bad so luch damage has already been done.

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  • themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yes, exactly. The server I run jellyfin on kept promising me cake, though I am fairly certain the cake is a lie.

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  • lka1988@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Synology is already enshittifying itself

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    • stephen01king@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I would go so far as to say they are already in a shit state, but they’re just not stopping the process yet.

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• rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Jeff should consider hosting on Peertube and keeping his Patreon active. He’s awesome and more than capable, I’d mirror him in a hot second.

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  • Cort@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    He’s on float plane. I think he’s trying to make a living, so I’d assume YouTube ad revenue is a factor

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    • CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      He’s on float plane

      I’ll never support anyone on that platform. I’ll never do anything to give LTT a cent.

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    • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Flotplane is a decent enough alternative. They keep gutting YouTube’s ad-rev, sooner or later, something will have to give.

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• Jimmycakes@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s pretty harmful to Googles cloud business.

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  • grueling_spool@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Who would win:

    • A 2 trillion dollar multinational technology company
    • Some guy’s hobby project

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• NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Isn’t that what an mp3 players main purpose is?

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  • BroBot9000@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yes cause they can’t sell you a subscription for your mp3 player.

    Fucking rent seeking behaviour from corporate parasites.

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    • lordnikon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s the one thing idiocracy got wrong it wouldn’t be Costco it would be Rent-A-Center

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  • RaoulDook@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    MP3 players aren’t bad, they’re just mostly obsolete when smartphones can do the same thing and we mostly already have one.

    I like to keep several GB of music on my phone from my MP3 library, and I have no streaming music accounts. I pay once for my music if I pay at all.

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    • entwine413@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Your phone is an mp3 player. It just does other stuff too.

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    • Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There is a subsection of mp3 players that have enough power to drive high impedance headphones, Hifi players, some call them. They still make decent sales to their customer base of particular people.

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Clearly

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• Ptsf@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Hey kid… You wanna self host an api call? 😈

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  • truxnell@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You wouldn’t steal an API call…

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    • nick_99@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Would YOU download an APi call?

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• suswrkr@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  it would be amazing if geerlingguy was the one to make youtube go mask off

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  • MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Google has been mask off since they removed “don’t be evil” as their slogan, and they’ve been lroving it ever since. Apparently people don’t pay attention!

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