https://torrentfreak.com/youtubes-piracy-filter-blocks-mit-courses-blender-videos-and-more-180618/
Over the past several days, an even more worrying trend has appeared.
Several popular YouTube accounts including those belonging to ‘MIT OpenCourseWare‘ and the ‘Blender Foundation,’ have suddenly had all their videos blocked.
People who try to watch one of the freely available MIT courses on YouTube
get the following message, which typically appears as an anti-piracy
notice if an uploader doesn’t have the rights to show content locally.
“This video contains content from MIT. It is not available in your country.”
The message appears in all locations that we were able to check,
suggesting that it may very well apply worldwide. In any case, on social
media there’s no shortage of people mentioning that they can no longer
access the courses.
The nonprofit organization, which is leading the development of the
open source 3D content-creation application Blender, has also had its videos blocked.
Ton Roosendaal, Chairman of the Blender Foundation, noticed the issue
on Saturday and contacted YouTube. “This is most probably an error from
their side,” Roosendaal said.
At the time of writing, the issue still hasn’t been resolved.
Update: YouTube notes that the issue is related to
its updated partner agreements. The company is working on a solution. We
updated the title to reflect this and avoid confusion.
“Videos on a limited number of sites have been blocked as we updated
our partner agreements. We are working with MITOpenCourseWare and
Blender Foundation to get their videos back online,” a YouTube
spokesperson tells TorrentFreak.
In today's PR disaster YouTube decides to piss off the free education community.
In other news Blender experiments by hosting their videos on PeerTube.
https://www.blender.org/media-exposure/youtube-blocks-blender-videos-worldwide/
Welp, I was just recently watching some of those MIT videos for some Physics revision, glad I managed to watch them before it was too late.
we should be encouraging the free dissemination of knowledge
Thanks OP for mentioning PeerTube / posting that blender link that talks more about it, because after reading in on it a bit more it's mighty interesting. Seems like the perfect candidate for stuff like Guifi (crowd sourced internet networks / internet(s?)).
But don't worry, the mountains of Nazi propaganda are still viewable for all ages!
Seriously Googletube: admit that you need actual humans working on it, and fix your shit.
The volume here is significantly too high for human discretion to be feasible.
Google does shitty thing that once again fucks over everyone and doesn't respond to criticism or backlash. Lather, rinse, repeat. Didn't these clowns finally rid the "don't do evil" slogan?
free dissemination of knowledge means no money, and that ain't good, how would large corporate groups get paid if knowledge becomes free huh? /s
Update 2: Blender’s Ton Roosendaal notes that YouTube wants the organization to sign a monetization agreement.
“Google sent a contract to Blender Foundation in which we have to
accept monetizing our Youtube channel content. Time for a more lengthy
article… meanwhile, here’s the contract.”
Excuse me what the fuck? Youtube is now blackmailing the blender foundation to sign a monetization agreement?
If they keep pulling shenanigans like this it'll only put the spotlight on alternative services and drive users away from their platform.
I hope youtube gets their teeth kicked in when a competitor shows up to take all their creators
when a competitor shows up
That's a good one.
Oh right shit net neutrality is gone
Nvm we're fucked, hold on to those memories it’s all there is
https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube
Why
We can't build a FOSS video streaming alternatives to YouTube, Dailymotion, Vimeo... with a centralized software. One organization alone may not have enough money to pay for bandwidth and video storage of its servers.
So we need to have a decentralized network of servers seeding videos (as Diaspora for example). But it's not enough because one video could become famous and overload the server. It's the reason why we need to use a P2P protocol to limit the server load. Thanks to WebTorrent, we can make P2P (thus BitTorrent) inside the web browser, as of today.
Not with a centralised content delivery network, sure
There was one most creators went to for a bit before it sold out to Verizon or something.
Shame, it was Netflix but for professional indie creators.
Introducing: Google 3D
So am i understanding this correctly? This is youtube pressuring open-source-ish content creators to place ads on their stuff? Going so far as to remove their stuff entirely out of spite when they can't make them budge?
Yes.
Fuck Google.
That's not even the problem.
The problem is that mass video sharing websites are extremely difficult to make profitable, especially in the age of adblock becoming increasingly normal even among non-power-users. IIRC YouTube has never been profitable in its entire life.
The most profitable company on the planet couldn't do it. I pity any start-up that thinks they can.
Google will just buy them too
YouTube Blocks Blender Videos Worldwide — blender.org
More on it from BF them self.
Its a pretty shit situation and even with "priority support" its almost a week now without a fix.
No. It's automated algorithms automatically making dumb decisions. There's zero reason to assume malice.
YouTube's been losing money for years, if Google can't make money from that shit who else would be able to? Costs for a competitor would be phenomenal, both initial and operating.
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