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

[rsiddharth]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     rsiddharth <rsd>        15/02/02 03:13:04

Modified files:
        philosophy     : whats-wrong-with-youtube.html 

Log message:
        [#978519] rms requested to make these changes.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/whats-wrong-with-youtube.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.10&r2=1.11

Patches:
Index: whats-wrong-with-youtube.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/whats-wrong-with-youtube.html,v
retrieving revision 1.10
retrieving revision 1.11
diff -u -b -r1.10 -r1.11
--- whats-wrong-with-youtube.html       15 Jan 2015 18:25:20 -0000      1.10
+++ whats-wrong-with-youtube.html       2 Feb 2015 03:13:04 -0000       1.11
@@ -18,29 +18,30 @@
 <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>In the HTML5 mode, it involves running
+   a <a href="/philosophy/javascript-trap.html">nonfree JavaScript
+   program</a>.</li>
+
+   <li>In the (non-HTML5) mode, it involves use of Flash Player, which
+   is non-free.  It even tells users to install Flash Player. (This
+   mode is deprecated as of January 2015.)</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
+   software &mdash; Users who are in the know can avoid that problem. For
    instance, you can access the non-HTML5 videos with 
    <a href="/software/gnash/">Gnash</a>, and you can get any of them with 
    <a href="http://youtube-dl.org/";>youtube-dl</a>.</p>
 
    <p>However, most users don't use these methods, so putting a video
-   on YouTube directs them towards nonfree software.  To avoid that,
-   post the video as an Ogg or Webm file on an ordinary web site.</p></li>
-   </ul>
+   on YouTube directs them towards nonfree software.</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>The developers of youtube-dl need to keep changing it as the site
+   changes. The mere <em>attempt</em> to stop you from downloading a
+   file is mistreating you wrong even if you can overcome it.</p></li>
 </ul>
 
 <p>One thing about YouTube that is <em>not</em> a moral strike against it
@@ -49,13 +50,26 @@
 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
+mistreat Google by denying Google control of that aspect of its
 computing. We hope that Google will reclaim 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>
+use those nonfree programs, if 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>
+
+<hr/>
+
+<p>Dailymotion and Vimeo have the same problem as YouTube's HTML5
+option: viewing their videos requires nonfree JavaScript code. If
+there is any commercial video-hosting platform that doesn't have this
+problem, please inform us.</p>
+
+<hr/>
+
+<p>To post a video without requiring nonfree software to view it, you
+can place the video as an Ogg or Webm file on an ordinary web
+site.</p>
 
-<p>A way to publish videos to the web using free software is
+<p>Another way to publish videos to the web using free software is
 <a href="http://mediagoblin.org/";>GNU MediaGoblin</a>.  Ideally
 you will set up
 <a href="http://docs.mediagoblin.org/";>your own server</a>, or run
@@ -107,7 +121,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2015/01/15 18:25:20 $
+$Date: 2015/02/02 03:13:04 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>