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Doesn't this mean a video embed is illegal as well? Self hosted video isn't feasible for a lot of sites... This'll be "fun".
by tehbeard 5y ago
Doesn't this mean a video embed is illegal as well?
Self hosted video isn't feasible for a lot of sites... This'll be "fun".
- vntok 5y agoIn the EU, most video embeds I find now have an interstitial popup you have to click for the video to actually load.
- kmeisthax 5y agoMaybe, though the ruling mostly revolves around website subresources that are not particularly burdensome to self-host. It could be the case that replacing your iframes with an image that says "click to watch this video on YouTube" might be OK; because then it wouldn't be a subresource, and users would actually have a choice as to whether or not to watch the YouTube video and have Google be able to log that. This is something that PeerTube already does for it's embeds, because P2P is a privacy nightmare[0]. Or, the courts might demand all web video in the EU be hosted by people bound by GDPR and US subpoena-proof; and if that costs way too much then it's not their problem. That would also fatally imperil PeerTube and LBRY, as the CIA/NSA/FBI wouldn't need to subpoena Google anymore. They could just watch the video and get your data that way. [0] As many thousands of people who have gotten sued for using BitTorrent can concur.