“My ten hour white noise video now has five copyright claims”

Re:“My ten hour white noise video now has five copyright cla... by Digital-Citizen on Friday January 05, 2018 @07:32PM (#16083017)

The two cases (YouTube and using nonfree OSes) are not comparable as the grandparent poster and this suggest.

In Stallman's case there were no free software OSes. One could not use a computer in freedom. Therefore he used a nonfree OS to write free software until he could run a free software OS and thus had no more need for nonfree OSes. For years now he (and the FSF) don't run nonfree systems. They even endorse computers (and other computer hardware) that can be run completely in freedom (see https://www.fsf.org/ryf for details).

We already have file hosting options that don't use DRM, nonfree JS (or indeed any JS), and avoid the other problems of YouTube. There's no need for coming up with something new as we already have viable other means of sharing files.

We don't need YouTube, they need us. By buying into their limitations and restrictions uploaders endorse YouTube (which is undesirable and certainly not very thoughtful) and help foist YouTube's choices on others (which is unethical).

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Re:“My ten hour white noise video now has five copyright cla... by loup-vaillant on Saturday January 06, 2018 @07:52AM (#16085064)

Still, the issue remains: if you have a message to spread, how would you go about spreading it? The brute facts are, not putting copies of the message in those evil centralised social networks means the message will be invisible to many people, in some cases the majority of the target audience.

I'm all for getting rid of YouTube, but I'm not sure how we should do it.

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