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From: |
Dora Scilipoti |
Subject: |
www/philosophy whats-wrong-with-youtube.html |
Date: |
Mon, 05 May 2014 20:25:23 +0000 |
CVSROOT: /web/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Dora Scilipoti <dora> 14/05/05 20:25:23
Modified files:
philosophy : whats-wrong-with-youtube.html
Log message:
Validate; complete <title>; YouTube; JavaScript.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/whats-wrong-with-youtube.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.3&r2=1.4
Patches:
Index: whats-wrong-with-youtube.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/whats-wrong-with-youtube.html,v
retrieving revision 1.3
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -b -r1.3 -r1.4
--- whats-wrong-with-youtube.html 5 May 2014 17:00:16 -0000 1.3
+++ whats-wrong-with-youtube.html 5 May 2014 20:25:22 -0000 1.4
@@ -1,56 +1,55 @@
<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
<!-- Parent-Version: 1.77 -->
-<title>What's Wrong with Youtube</title>
+<title>What's Wrong with YouTube
+- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
<!--#include virtual="/server/gnun/initial-translations-list.html" -->
<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
-<h2>What's Wrong with Youtube</h2>
+<h2>What's Wrong with YouTube</h2>
-<p>There are two reasons why Youtube is a bad choice for where to post
+<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.
+<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.
+ <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.
+
+ <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
+ <a href="http://gnashdev.org/">Gnash</a>, and you can get any of them with
+ <a href="http://youtube-dl.org/">youtube-dl</a>.</p>
+
+ <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>
+ </ul>
</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 <a
href="http://gnashdev.org/">Gnash</a>, and you can get any of them with <a
href="http://youtube-dl.org/">youtube-dl</a>.
-
-<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>
+<li>YouTube tries to stop people from downloading copies.
-<p>
-One thing about Youtube that is <em>not</em> a moral strike against it
-is nonfree software on Youtube servers — if there is any.
+ <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>
+</ul>
+
+<p>One thing about YouTube that is <em>not</em> a moral strike against it
+is nonfree software on YouTube servers — 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>
+why it is not an injustice towards us.</p>
-<p>
-If there are any nonfree programs running on Youtube servers, they
+<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>
+refuse to <em>use</em> YouTube.</p>
</div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above -->
<!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" -->
@@ -92,7 +91,7 @@
<p class="unprintable">Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2014/05/05 17:00:16 $
+$Date: 2014/05/05 20:25:22 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
</div>