#Youtube is deleting Cyber #security videos because they changed TOS, and now everything about how to perform #pentest break TOS.
People at r/datahoarders are backuping ALL #security videos including #lockpicking and are sharing it through #bittorrent
Please, if you can afford it (size wise), share. #fuckYouTube and fuck #censorship
@kravietz
I respect your POV, but deeply disagree.
He owes us everything. We are customers. We are not paying with money, but with our data and receiving ads, and that allowed then to earn a fucking TON of money. Even more, they decided unilaterally change TOS. I could understand if they forbid new videos, but they should respect those uploaded under previous TOS.
What's more, I agree that they legally can do it.
If something can be done does not mean that it's morally right.
My two cents.
@Vortax Google will be forbidden from doing this under Article 17 of the new EU Copyright Directive but it's not live yet. I'm not defending Google, I'm just encouraging everyone to stop depending on them.
@kravietz
Totally true. Unfortunately, till today, there is simply no alternative to YouTube. Not Vimeo, not peertube, nothing. So, having content banned from YouTube is a great loss, and we should make them know when they do something we don't like.
Datahoarders made a fucking great move backuping all this content. We need alternatives to YouTube, but until then, I think we should have right to protest when YouTube makes a dick move like this.
@Vortax Why "no alternative"? Peertube works like a charm. If you're a popular tutorial autor on YT, people will follow your content wherever you post it
@kravietz
Because there is no quality content on peertube (or content at all). It's the classic snowball case. People start uploading content, your popularity rises, more people upload, and you become a reference platform. Since you are reference, everyone uploads to you, other sites get no content, and to be heard, all people must come to you, or no one notices.
Peertube has no content. It is no alternative right now. Maybe in 5 years, but not now.
@Vortax also a bit of a correction on the "upload to you part" - Peertube is federated so it doesn't really matter where you upload; for example I could watch this fine "Python Async basics" video on https://troll.tv/videos/watch/fce3f4a5-0f31-42ca-b6ef-910ad83f969f Peertube instance regardless of where the author @andybalaam originally uploaded it - that's a whole different paradigm here, there's no "reference platform"!
Let's be honest here: content creators want to be paid for the videos. Only small creators with limited followers or with true passion on what they do would be willing to switch to peertube and stop earning money.
Someone like #thecybermentor with 10m subscribers would probably be willing, but there is no way that #hack5 (10.5M) will post on peertube.
That is why peertube will never have good content except for privacy or irreverent one.
You have a point here, but it is not the same. Monetizing software means that people have to actually "pay" for it, which is something 99% is not willing to do.
Monetizing a video is as simple as upload. 99% people is willing to "pay" for it with and Ad or with their data, because it is perceived as "free"
Nowadays trend in video creation is you are paid for it. It is very difficult to change that trend to a donation based one, for example.
Yes, it is working for some people, but I wonder if the current patreon system can sustain so much creators if YouTube stop paying money.
I personally think that system would get saturated and would collapse, substantislly reducing the number of creators available.
I'm not defending YouTube (I HATE YouTube and all it represents), I'm just playing Devil's advocate here..
@Vortax @andybalaam YT is already saturated, relatively small group takes 99% of all the views & subscribers and earns well (and Google even better) There's plenty "YT demonetized me" dramas out there recently
@kravietz @andybalaam
My point is:
Currently, content creators only want money. We have switch from one format were people made videos besides their jobs, to a format were they want to work making videos. There is no turning back, I'm afraid.
As long as there is a single platform that pays them money, there is no hope to free, open source, unpaid platform. At least for big creators, which cope like 95% of all content out there.
@Vortax @andybalaam that's why I earlier said it depends on your objectives. Pay per views, ads, referrals - sure go for YT, Twitch. But plenty of people post content for knowledge sharing, community, self-promo etc - for those Peertube does the job and doesn't impose arbitrary rules like "no hacking videos"
@Vortax @andybalaam BTW Twitch is Amazon so all stays in the GAFA family :)
@kravietz
@andybalaam
Yes, and that is why lots and lots of content creators have switched to Twitch... Because they pay more.
Creators have stopped to adapt their video format to the one needed for yourtube, to that needed for twitch (duration, format, content...).
If they went to another platform because they are paid more, even to the point of radically change their format, how can we expect them to migrate to a platform that pays zero? I think it's impossible.