www/philosophy whats-wrong-with-youtube.html

[Navaneeth]

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Changes by:     Navaneeth <navaneeths52>        14/05/05 16:07:57

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        New page (RT #912800)

CVSWeb URLs:
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+<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
+<!-- Parent-Version: 1.77 -->
+
+<title>What's Wrong with Youtube</title>
+<!--#include virtual="/server/gnun/initial-translations-list.html" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
+<h2>What's Wrong with Youtube</h2>
+
+<p>There are two reasons why youtube is a bad choice for where to post
+videos or refer to videos.</p>
+
+<ul>
+<li>Normal use of Youtube involves use of nonfree software.
+
+<ul>
+<li>In the default (non-HTML5) mode, it involves use of Flash Player.
+It even tells users to install Flash Player.
+</li>
+<li>In the HTML5 mode, it involves use of running a nonfree Javascript
+program.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>There are ways to access Youtube without running that nonfree
+software. Users who are in the know can avoid that problem. For
+instance, you can access the non-HTML5 videos with Gnash, and you can
+get any of them with youtube-dl.
+
+<p>Nonetheless, putting a video on Youtube will lead most people to
+view it with nonfree software, because most users don't use these
+methods. So Youtube is a bad way to publish a video.</p></li>
+
+<li>Youtube tries to stop people from downloading copies.
+
+<p>There are ways to download from youtube, such as youtube-dl, but the
+<em>attempt</em> to stop people from downloading a file
+is morally wrong even if it can be defeated.
+</p>
+</li>
+
+<p>
+One thing about Youtube that is <em>not</em> a moral strike against it
+is nonfree software on Youtube servers &mdash; if there is any.
+We as outsiders can't tell, because it wouldn't affect us, which is
+why it is not an injustice towards us.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+If there are any nonfree programs running on Youtube servers, they
+mistreat Google by denying Google control of that part of its
+computing. We hope that Google will recoup its freedom by ceasing to
+use those nonfree programs, if there are any. But they do not
+mistreat the <em>users</em> of that service, so they are not a reason to
+refuse to <em>use</em> Youtube.
+</p>
+
+</div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" -->
+<div id="footer">
+<div class="unprintable">
+
+<p>Please send general FSF &amp; GNU inquiries to
+<a href="mailto:address@hidden";>&lt;address@hidden&gt;</a>.
+There are also <a href="/contact/">other ways to contact</a>
+the FSF.  Broken links and other corrections or suggestions can be sent
+to <a href="mailto:address@hidden";>&lt;address@hidden&gt;</a>.</p>
+
+<p><!-- TRANSLATORS: Ignore the original text in this paragraph,
+        replace it with the translation of these two:
+
+        We work hard and do our best to provide accurate, good quality
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+Please see the <a
+href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations
+README</a> for information on coordinating and submitting translations
+of this article.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>Copyright &copy; 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
+
+<p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license"
+href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/us/";>Creative
+Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License</a>.</p>
+
+<!--#include virtual="/server/bottom-notes.html" -->
+
+<p class="unprintable">Updated:
+<!-- timestamp start -->
+$Date: 2014/05/05 16:07:56 $
+<!-- timestamp end -->
+</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+</body>
+</html>