Yeah. In the middle of a two-plus hour video about cruise lines, there’s a clip — just a few seconds long — of a friend who joined Ellis on one of the trips singing karaoke. And that caused the entire video to come down while the “dispute” was adjudicated.

And, as Ellis notes, YouTube by default sides with the copyright holder, because the nature of copyright law is that it very, very, very strongly encourages intermediaries to side with the copyright claimant, even if that claim is obvious bullshit and clearly fair use (as is the case here). YouTube’s ContentID system is basically built with that in mind. Even as YouTube spent years fighting back against copyright maximalism and winning the massive DMCA case Viacom filed against it, in the end, to keep the big copyright holders happy, ContentID is really designed to strongly favor copyright claimants, even when their claims are bullshit.

The culprit in this case? Apparently our old friends at Warner/Chappell, which, let’s just say, have a history of this sort of absolute bullshit.

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On Bluesky, Ellis points out that this wasn’t an automated takedown.

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[–] 6 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Does anyone actively use peertube? What instance should I use and who should I follow or subscribe to?

If that's not easy to answer than I can see why it's not an option for many.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 19 hours ago* (1 child)

    Blender uses Peertube as a major platform for videos about Blender and made in Blender. Blender is a perfect example of actually committing to using Peertube and showing it can in general work.

    https://video.blender.org/

    As far as instances I recommend, Spectra.Video looks good I have been thinking of making an account there

    https://spectra.video/signup

    gnu linux seems like a decent Peertube instance too!

    https://gnulinux.tube/signup

    Here is a good gaming focused Peertube instance

    https://tube.fediverse.games/

    I think people way overthink the difficult of bringing new people into Peertube and the Fediverse. What is sticky are the people, artists and organizations that have people who trust them and seek out what they make, not the platforms. What is sticky about the Fediverse is that people are compelling and interesting to interact with here.

    If creators decide to come here themselves, their audience in the end isn't going to care that much where they go to get the videos especially if it doesn't require an account sign up to access.

    It will take time, but the inspiring thing is it is already completely possible to do!

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  • [–] 2 points 15 hours ago

    its been at least 12 months since I visited PT but back then instance federation was voluntary so it was a chore to find stuff I might be interested in because of that, you needed to be on a dozen instances, it was like if Lemmy didn't federate, making it particularly tedious fir end users.

    I used Newpipe as my PT app

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