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Jeff Geerling: Self-hosting your own media considered harmful (updated). Youtube removed his content, saying that self hosting content is "dangerous or harmful content" (www.jeffgeerling.com)

submitted 1 year ago by bimbimboy@lemm.ee to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What if I decide to digitize my entire movie catalog? I would have to rip those DVDs and blurays...

[–] Schlemmy@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah. That's illegal in lots of countries.

[–] TonyOstrich@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But it is legal in the country he lives in as well as the country YouTube is headquartered in.

[–] Schlemmy@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is it? I'm not totally sure, as I'm not from the US but I think the DMCA is the nasty player in this game.

[–] TonyOstrich@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Technically I'm half right and half wrong (I think). It's not illegal to backup media that one owns, but it is illegal to break DRM/copy protection which is required to rip most physical media these days.

Suffice to say the legality of it is a cluster fuck, but the morality, in my opinion, is pretty clear. Fuck the corpos.

[–] Schlemmy@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah fuck them.

Nearly all digital media is locked so in order to back up something you own you'll have to break the lock. Fuck. Them. (And the people who voted for these laws)

[–] TonyOstrich@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

You are allowed to record content like a broadcast though, which makes me wonder if that means that ripping is illegal, but piping it through a capture card isn't?

[–] anzo@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

[–] couldbealeotard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

A lot of people don't realise that the application of the VCR was technically copyright infringement, especially so when you lent tapes to your friends.