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Wow I had no idea about peertube. Is it viable? That’s really encouraging to hear about a competitor to YouTube
by mrfusion 7y ago
Wow I had no idea about peertube. Is it viable? That’s really encouraging to hear about a competitor to YouTube
- wuunderbar 7y agoIt's a question of if they're going to be able to successfully battle copyright and otherwise illegal content issues (if and when they get popular). I don't believe the existence of their legalese dodging all liability will hold up in many countries for instances. As for user liability it's been shown that countries will battle those as well. Examples: 1) Usenet servers get routinely taken down and it becomes a game of wack-a-mole. 2) BitTorrent seed peers with illegal copyright content are routinely served DMCA notices.
- kstrauser 7y agoI don’t think that’s an issue here, as PeerTube is a software package, not a hosting service (that I know of). I can use it to host Creative Commons videos, and you can use it to serve box office movies, but in either case PeerTube itself has no say in how you or I are using it.
- orblivion 7y agoIt's a competitor to YouTube the same way Mastodon is a competitor to Twitter (though Mastodon is probably more popular). It's a similar service but federated. One neat (or overcomplicating?) thing about PeerTube is that you can follow a PeerTube account with your Mastodon account. Posted videos show up as "toots" and I'm guessing that your replies turn into comments on the video.