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

posted by janrinok on Tuesday June 19 2018, @10:54PM   Printer-friendly
from the unintended-consequences-or-not dept.

canopic jug writes:

YouTube's ContentID system blocks videos alleged to infringe on copyright. Lately it has been coming down on a great many highly visible, legitimate videos. YouTube is apparently taking its time in resolving the problem.

Several popular YouTube accounts, including those belonging to 'MIT OpenCourseWare' and the 'Blender Foundation,' have had all their videos blocked. People who try to access the videos are informed that they are not available in their country, suggesting that YouTube's piracy filters have been triggered. It's unclear, however, who or what is to blame.

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 20 2018, @01:02AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 20 2018, @01:02AM (#695399)

    It seems the issue is about monetization. See contract [blender.org] from BF page with news [blender.org] (search "Tuesday 19 June 2018, by Ton Roosendaal", in case it moved down the page... #anchors are haaaaaaaaaard, they had to replace the functionality with JS and "Be awesome in space" tooltip instead of direct "Go to top"... so much millennial cuteness is making me puke).

    Blender Foundation is testing a distributed system as response. For me it does nothing, click any of the thumbnails and orange line renders at top of page, then nothing (this is with JS, FF52ESR). Opening in new tab/window quickly redirects to https://video.blender.org/ [blender.org] Inspecting the served page with non JS browser, it says Angular is used, making JS a must. At least they (Peertube) also talk about future non JS players. Imagine if they went with SN method, start from the non JS version and later add JS...

    Or do you remember when files were just served via plain link (HTTP/FTP based) or some kind of P2P to distribute the load, instead of needing to run cute crap in browser that in the end runs HTTP, but not before multiple layers of crap wasting client and server resources? I do. Old times, good times. BF distributed movie files that way, bittorrent IIRC.

    (FOSS) tech world, keeping on in the self inflicted, over complex, path to hell (non FOSS has the next quarter money excuse). But so pretty, and so buzzword compliant.

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  • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Wednesday June 20 2018, @07:22AM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Wednesday June 20 2018, @07:22AM (#695496) Journal

    For me it does nothing, click any of the thumbnails and orange line renders at top of page, then nothing (this is with JS, FF52ESR).

    After enabling JavaScript, the site works great (apart from occasional bandwidth issues) both with Firefox 56.0 and Waterfox 56.2.

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