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Re:YouTube suspended my account for posting DeFi hackathon v... by meltedcapacitor on Monday December 06, 2021 @07:50AM (#29459082)
The satire element comes the fact that doing it that way, while technically flawless, will get the creator as large an audience as piping the video to /dev/null.
Re:YouTube suspended my account for posting DeFi hackathon v... by ThalesX on Monday December 06, 2021 @07:59AM (#29459171)
Oh, I missed on that. And yes, that is true.

I can't help think that for a hackathon, it's a pretty good use case for something like this. The organizers can then take the files from wherever and post them to their YouTube channel for exposure and monetization if that's what they want.

I'd be furious if I ended up posting some video, mandatory on YouTube, for a fun week-end hackathon and ending up with my entire YouTube account suspended. So if I ever do end up organizing a hackathon or similar event, I'll keep in mind that it might be better to ask for the video files as just files and then handling the posting on my side so as to not expose participants to this risk.

If participants want to ensure their names are linked to the video bits used from their films, they can go through the all the blockhainy-web3-y trouble, if not they can just zip them.

Re:YouTube suspended my account for posting DeFi hackathon v... by KptMarchewa on Monday December 06, 2021 @07:53AM (#29459109)
"flawless"

I can't tell if this is satire.

Re:YouTube suspended my account for posting DeFi hackathon v... by 1_player on Monday December 06, 2021 @07:56AM (#29459142)
Certainly it can't be easier than going to my YouTube account and pressing upload.
Re:YouTube suspended my account for posting DeFi hackathon v... by fsflover on Monday December 06, 2021 @08:33AM (#29459501)
But you don't have to put the video exclusively to IPFS, PeerTube and co.