• cheer
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    4 years ago

    It’s an ethical problem when dealing with taking someone else’s work and distributing it without their consent, not anything to do with YouTube.

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      4 years ago

      There is a previous discussion on this HN thread ‘PeerTube, the “Decentralized YouTube”, succeeds in crowdfunding’ : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17577372 (standard ycombinator link warning applies)

      here are two for and against snippets of creators wanting centralization, decentralization:

      1. themagician on July 20, 2018 [–]

      What the people who want decentralized services don’t realize is that the content creators want centralized services (whether they realize it or not) …

      1. resters on July 20, 2018 [–]

      Your assumptions are completely wrong. Content creators simply want a platform for gathering an audience. Youtube wants to play as many …

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      4 years ago

      Yeah. People who publish things have a right to get angry if somebody pays them illegal attention