Why would you use YouTube if you care about these issues? The whole business is based on monetizing your effort without compensating you. Sure, youtube has a b

Why would you use YouTube if you care about these issues? The whole business is based on monetizing your effort without compensating you. Sure, youtube has a big network effect, but that doesn't matter for the use case of using it as a host for videos shared on social networks or embedded in other sites. You could try something like MediaGoblin instead. Taking these steps help ensure that we never have to worry about YouTube letting some random claimant knock our videos offline again, at least not without them filing a claim against a registrar, VPS host, etc. From MediaGoblin.org: "MediaGoblin is a free software media publishing platform that anyone can run. You can think of it as a decentralized alternative to Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud, etc."