YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Videos, and More

Re:YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Video... by no_wizard on Monday June 18, 2018 @11:55AM (#17339202)

What about Vimeo? I know it’s target market has pivoted to More high end indie creations however aren’t they somewhat positioned at least to exploit any holes in YouTube’s strategy? This is one of those things where I feel like a real competitor will only sort of be able to creep up not explode on the scene. I always thought Vimeo had a decent chance here because it’s pretty easy (imo) to use just like YouTube and they have free tiers (or st least when I signed up they did)

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Re:YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Video... by RIMR on Monday June 18, 2018 @04:57PM (#17341640)

Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised to see PornHub launch a YouTube competitor strategically as YouTube is flailing.

They already run a high functioning video network. They really just need a SFW frontend with alternate branding (and no adult videos).

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Re:YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Video... by judge2020 on Monday June 18, 2018 @10:26PM (#17343353)

With the recently released VPNHub [0], it seems like they're willing to branch out and I see this as a possibility.

[0]: https://vpnhub.com

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Re:YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Video... by shittyadmin on Monday June 18, 2018 @12:15PM (#17339374)

I think a big chunk of the problem now is that when people want to watch regularly released video content from internet creators they reach to YouTube, there's no integration of subscriptions across sites. You'd basically have to scrape video feeds from youtube to compete in this way.

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Re:YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Video... by jake_the_third on Monday June 18, 2018 @01:46PM (#17340147)

>You'd basically have to scrape video feeds from youtube to compete in this way.

Youtube still offers RSS and it's reliable and chronological unlike youtube's subscription feed algorithm.

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Re:YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Video... by robotmlg on Monday June 18, 2018 @12:22PM (#17339451)

If only there were some way to Syndicate website updates to a centralized reader in a Really Simple way...

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Re:YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Video... by shittyadmin on Monday June 18, 2018 @01:05PM (#17339807)

Seriously though, I dream of a world in which all apps had a "subscribe on your news reader" button which could open an RSS client, maybe something implemented by mobile OS providers so it's easy for new users but overridable by users like the browser or calling apps would be ideal.

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Re:YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Video... by gnulinux on Monday June 18, 2018 @10:21PM (#17343328)

I think RSS is a vastly underused technology/tool. I wonder at what point people lost hope in it and abandoned. Not to say, it's completely abandoned, but it's not used as much as it should be used.

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Re:YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Video... by no_wizard on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @02:08AM (#17344178)

I personally feel like and I remember very distinctly that RSS (and Atom Feeds to boot) seemingly hit their peak with google reader and when google reader was discontinued RSS seemed to wane quickly thereafter. I’d be very interested in knowing if hard statistics back this up or not but my anecdotal experience suggests that this is indeed the case

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Re:YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Video... by icebraining on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @04:35AM (#17344730)

I think Twitter's coming of age was the big blow. When Reader shut down it was already waning.

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