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Every time I feel myself wanting to make content, I see stuff like this and I nope out of it. Why put so much effort into sharing your passion with the world on

Every time I feel myself wanting to make content, I see stuff like this and I nope out of it. Why put so much effort into sharing your passion with the world only to be frozen out by some morons that are enabled by a billion-dollar company that doesn't care about you? Copyright strikes are such a blatant example of the legal system being bought and paid for by the wealthy, it's not even funny.

armchairhacker 4y ago
Even without demonetization, just getting views as a content creator is really hard. You only see those who succeed. Nothing against creating content for yourself, or your friends, or future people though. Just don't expect fame or money.
- thr0wawayf00 4y ago
  Absolutely, which must make this all the more frustrating. If you're one of the lucky few to build a large audience and you draw the attention of the trolls, that would drive me insane.
brightball 4y ago
I wonder if this happens with podcasts?
PragmaticPulp 4y ago
Realistically, any popular creator is producing hundreds or eventually thousands of videos. If some of them get locked out, it's still a smart portion of their overall channel. It is a problem, but it's not genuinely an obstacle for creators finding audiences. Making good content that people like and getting enough traction to have a userbase is orders of magnitude more of a risk than getting a copyright strike.
woojoo666 4y ago
Post on decentralized platforms. Peertube, Odysee, etc. They are still small for now but they need to start somewhere. You can even set it up so any video you post to youtube gets automatically mirrored to the other platforms
- geoffeg 4y ago
  Fran covers that in the video.
Silhouette 4y ago
Copyright strikes are such a blatant example of the legal system being bought and paid for by the wealthy, it's not even funny. From personal experience I can't say the system works any better if you're a creator whose content is getting ripped from other sources and put onto YouTube either. I've had people ripping numerous videos and it apparently takes longer to complete YouTube's takedown form than it takes for the ripper to upload the exact same video to their channel again. I thought there was supposed to be some provision in the safe harbor laws that YouTube hides behind to deal with repeat offenders but apparently it doesn't carry any practical weight if there is. I'd be the first to agree that copyright protection has been expanded too far and the mechanisms for enforcing it are often used unfairly and in a heavy-handed way. Reform is well overdue. I'd have slightly more understanding if those methods did at least work in cases of flagrant infringement that are exactly what copyright law was always supposed to prohibit but it seems they don't. Not for the little creator at least.
birdyrooster 4y ago
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armchairhacker 4y ago

Even without demonetization, just getting views as a content creator is really hard. You only see those who succeed. Nothing against creating content for yourself, or your friends, or future people though. Just don't expect fame or money.

thr0wawayf00 4y ago
Absolutely, which must make this all the more frustrating. If you're one of the lucky few to build a large audience and you draw the attention of the trolls, that would drive me insane.

brightball 4y ago

I wonder if this happens with podcasts?

PragmaticPulp 4y ago

Realistically, any popular creator is producing hundreds or eventually thousands of videos. If some of them get locked out, it's still a smart portion of their overall channel. It is a problem, but it's not genuinely an obstacle for creators finding audiences. Making good content that people like and getting enough traction to have a userbase is orders of magnitude more of a risk than getting a copyright strike.

woojoo666 4y ago

Post on decentralized platforms. Peertube, Odysee, etc. They are still small for now but they need to start somewhere. You can even set it up so any video you post to youtube gets automatically mirrored to the other platforms

geoffeg 4y ago
Fran covers that in the video.

Silhouette 4y ago

Copyright strikes are such a blatant example of the legal system being bought and paid for by the wealthy, it's not even funny. From personal experience I can't say the system works any better if you're a creator whose content is getting ripped from other sources and put onto YouTube either. I've had people ripping numerous videos and it apparently takes longer to complete YouTube's takedown form than it takes for the ripper to upload the exact same video to their channel again. I thought there was supposed to be some provision in the safe harbor laws that YouTube hides behind to deal with repeat offenders but apparently it doesn't carry any practical weight if there is. I'd be the first to agree that copyright protection has been expanded too far and the mechanisms for enforcing it are often used unfairly and in a heavy-handed way. Reform is well overdue. I'd have slightly more understanding if those methods did at least work in cases of flagrant infringement that are exactly what copyright law was always supposed to prohibit but it seems they don't. Not for the little creator at least.

birdyrooster 4y ago

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