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YouTube pulled a popular tutorial video from tech creator Jeff Geerling this week, claiming his guide to installing LibreELEC on a Raspberry Pi 5 violated policies against “harmful content.” The video, which showed viewers how to set up their own home media servers, had been live for over a year and racked up more than 500,000 views. YouTube’s automated systems flagged the content for allegedly teaching people “how to get unauthorized or free access to audio or audiovisual content.”

Geerling says his tutorial covered only legal self-hosting of media people already own – no piracy tools or copyright workarounds. He said he goes out of his way to avoid mentioning popular piracy software in his videos. It’s the second time YouTube has pulled a self-hosting content video from Geerling. Last October, YouTube removed his Jellyfin tutorial, though that decision was quickly reversed after appeal. This time, his appeal was denied.

  • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
    113·
    1 day ago

    I think ripping DVDs is still technically illegal, even though CSS has long since been broken. It is still illegal to circumvent encryption in a copy protection scheme, even if it’s for your own personal use and the encryption scheme has been pwned.

    I bet if he didn’t mention that his videos were ripped from DVD, they might have left it up.

      • psud@aussie.zoneEnglish
        2·
        22 hours ago

        And beyond the law it depends also on enforcement

        The US doesn’t give a right to break Bluray copy protection and make a personal backup or access it on a device that otherwise couldn’t play it. But the only enforcement is on people sharing copies, no one is prosecuted for format shifting their collection to play over their LAN

    • isgleas@lemmy.mlEnglish
      17·
      1 day ago

      Iirc, you are entitled to have/create a backup of your physical media, as long as it is for your personal use.

      • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
        201·
        1 day ago

        But if I remember from back in the day, the DMCA doesn’t have any exception for that. This is why CD ripping was legal, while DVD ripping was not. It had nothing to do with fair use or backups, but rather that DVDs have encryption, and CDs do not. Circumventing that encryption for any reason was illegal.

        I don’t think it has changed, but it’s been a hot minute since the Cypherpunks all wore DeCSS T-Shirts…

        • psud@aussie.zoneEnglish
          2·
          22 hours ago

          I believe you’re (of you’re American) now allowed to rip DVD but not anything newer. DMCA protection was removed from CSS