The latest episode of Family Guy featured footage from the NES game Double Dribble, showing a glitch that allows a player to easily make three-point shots. The video was apparently copied directly from YouTube. TorrentFreak reports that the over seven-year-old original video has either been blocked by Fox using the DMCA or automatically blocked by the ContentID system:
Interestingly the clip that was uploaded by sw1tched was the exact same clip that appeared in the Family Guy episode on Sunday. So, unless Fox managed to duplicate the gameplay precisely, Fox must've taken the clip from YouTube. Whether Fox can do that and legally show the clip in an episode is a matter for the experts to argue but what followed next was patently absurd. Shortly after the Family Guy episode aired, Fox filed a complaint with YouTube and took down the Double Dribble video game clip on copyright grounds. (mirror Daily Motion)
Faced with yet another example of a blatantly wrongful takedown, TorrentFreak spoke with Fight for the Future CTO Jeff Lyon. Coincidentally he'd just watched the episode in question. "It's most likely that this is just another example of YouTube's Content ID system automatically taking down a video without regard to actual copyright ownership and fair use. As soon as FOX broadcast that Family Guy episode, their robots started taking down any footage that appeared to be reposted from the show — and in this case they took down the footage they stole from an independent creator," Lyon says.
YouTube's troubles with overzealously removing fair use content are well documented. It seems now that even original content isn't safe once the media industry gets a hold of it.
(Score: 3, Touché) by maxwell demon on Saturday May 21 2016, @10:02AM
Free software is good, but the more important thing YouTube & Co. offer is free and effort-free hosting of your videos. I would not know where I could set up a Goblin instance for free (well, I could install one at home, but I doubt my upload capacity is fit for video streaming or even just download), and I'm not entirely sure that I'd manage to setup a really secure server (the servers of the other providers may also not necessarily be sufficiently secured, but at least if their server is used in a DDoS attack, it's not my concern).
Also, the streaming platforms have some other features which I didn't notice for Mediagoblin. That includes the automatic display of similar videos (which does a lot to make your videos discoverable — what good is an online video if nobody knows about it?). Also, can you create playlists on Mediagoblin? Possibly consisting of videos on different Mediagoblin hosts (as being decentralized is one of the main selling points of the software)? Does it have an equivalent to channels?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Saturday May 21 2016, @03:51PM
To be honest, I haven't used it, so I don't know.
Finding appropriate hosting is a big barrier.
(Score: 2) by Pino P on Sunday May 22 2016, @03:33PM
Apart from needing to lease a VPS and your videos not appearing in related lists or subscriptions, I can see even more practical problems with starting your own site running GNU MediaGoblin.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by darkfeline on Sunday May 22 2016, @09:04PM
Of course, freedom is something that you have to actively fight for.
>YouTube & Co. offer is free and effort-free hosting of your videos
Or you can sit back and let your freedom be taken away from you.
Join the SDF Public Access UNIX System today!
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Monday May 23 2016, @06:23AM
Ah, so please show me your effort. Where is your successful video site using Mediagoblin? You know, talking is cheap. Put up or shut up.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Monday May 23 2016, @02:46PM
I have a personal website hosted with free software where I host the things I want to share (which includes no video content).
Also, you are using the logical fallacy called tu quoque, which doesn't not make for a good argument.
Join the SDF Public Access UNIX System today!
(Score: 2) by Pino P on Monday June 06 2016, @03:51PM
I've posted some videos [pineight.com], but you can't watch them in Safari for iOS because of Apple's bullheaded opposition to royalty-free audio and video codecs.