Suspect in YouTube Shooting Angry That Her Videos Had Been 'De-Monetized'

Re:Suspect in YouTube Shooting Angry That Her Videos Had Bee... by dec0dedab0de on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @10:16AM (#16754868)

'De-Monetized' suggests that someone who produces a video has an automatic right to income. That's bonkers, it's already quite a service that Youtube allows you to upload your videos to reach an audience that you'd be hard pressed to serve from your own server. They do this for free. In the previous iteration of such platforms all the ad income would go to the owner of the website, not to the rights owners of the videos.

I tend to agree with you, especially since they could put ads directly in the videos. However, they changed their policy fairly recently. If it was money producers were relying on to live, then they are definitely going to be upset.

It's like when Apple pulls something from the AppStore because they want to release something similar. They shouldn't have tried to build a business on someone else's platform, but it's still shitty.

On another note: I hate fanatics, no matter of what plumage.

100% agree, no "however"

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Re:Suspect in YouTube Shooting Angry That Her Videos Had Bee... by dwighttk on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @10:21AM (#16754918)

>It's like when Apple pulls something from the AppStore because they want to release something similar.

when did that happen?

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Re:Suspect in YouTube Shooting Angry That Her Videos Had Bee... by DrJokepu on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @10:27AM (#16754976)

During the early days of the App Store the guidelines prohibited duplicating system functionality, but that hasn’t been the case in a long time, wasn’t retroactive, didn’t apply to non-system Apple software and I’m not sure how strictly it was enforced in the first place anyway.

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Re:Suspect in YouTube Shooting Angry That Her Videos Had Bee... by hiccuphippo on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @10:36AM (#16755076)

Not sure about apple but it did happen with Twitter and third party clients.

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Re:Suspect in YouTube Shooting Angry That Her Videos Had Bee... by gnu8 on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @10:32AM (#16755027)

F.lux for example.

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Re:Suspect in YouTube Shooting Angry That Her Videos Had Bee... by dwighttk on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @10:36AM (#16755081)

Was f.lux ever available on the Mac App Store? I downloaded it for free from their website... It wasn't allowed on the iOS App Store because it needs access to private APIs.

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Re:Suspect in YouTube Shooting Angry That Her Videos Had Bee... by gnu8 on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @02:11PM (#16757358)

I thought it was kicked out of the iOS App Store for using the private APIs, after it was accepted. That is fair on its face, because those are the rules Apple set. However, the F.lux developers pleaded with Apple to open up the APIs needed to implement their software and were ignored. Then Apple copied their functionality as a built in feature of the OS. So the full story doesn’t make Apple look good.

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Re:Suspect in YouTube Shooting Angry That Her Videos Had Bee... by dwighttk on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @06:53PM (#16760073)

It was never on the App store, they just offered a download that could be installed without jailbreaking: https://justgetflux.com/sideload/

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Re:Suspect in YouTube Shooting Angry That Her Videos Had Bee... by ruiramos on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @10:34AM (#16755054)

Flux

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Re:Suspect in YouTube Shooting Angry That Her Videos Had Bee... by jacquesm on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @10:23AM (#16754936)

AppGratis.

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Re:Suspect in YouTube Shooting Angry That Her Videos Had Bee... by dwighttk on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @10:30AM (#16755008)

what was the similar feature Apple wanted to release?

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Re:Suspect in YouTube Shooting Angry That Her Videos Had Bee... by jacquesm on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @10:37AM (#16755093)

App discovery services.

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Re:Suspect in YouTube Shooting Angry That Her Videos Had Bee... by dwighttk on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @10:44AM (#16755171)

I don't know about that. iOS 7 didn't have any app discovery improvements in the App store. Unless you want to count slightly different top apps lists and the "Near me" feature. It wasn't until iOS 8 (a year and a half later) that they added the Explore tab.

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