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

[Richard M. Stallman]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       15/02/17 23:14:57

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

Log message:
        youtube-dl can't get all the videos; some require Adobe DRM.
        Other minor changes.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/whats-wrong-with-youtube.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.12&r2=1.13

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 1.12
retrieving revision 1.13
diff -u -b -r1.12 -r1.13
--- whats-wrong-with-youtube.html       2 Feb 2015 03:50:51 -0000       1.12
+++ whats-wrong-with-youtube.html       17 Feb 2015 23:14:56 -0000      1.13
@@ -20,18 +20,22 @@
   <ul>
    <li>In the HTML5 mode, it involves running
    a <a href="/philosophy/javascript-trap.html">nonfree JavaScript
-   program</a>.</li>
+   program</a>.  For some videos, it also requires the nonfree Adobe
+   DRM software that has been incorporated into proprietary browsers
+   and Firefox, but not into the GNU browsers
+   including <a href="/software/icecat">IceCat</a></li>
 
-   <li>In the (non-HTML5) mode, it involves use of Flash Player, which
+   <li>In the non-HTML5 mode, it involves use of Flash Player, which
    is nonfree.  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 &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>There are ways to access most YouTube videos without running
+   that nonfree software &mdash; Users who are in the know can avoid
+   doing so. For instance, you can access the most non-HTML5 videos
+   with
+   <a href="/software/gnash/">Gnash</a>, and you can get most HTML5
+   videos 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.</p>
@@ -41,7 +45,7 @@
 
  <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>
+   file is mistreatment even if you can overcome it.</p></li>
 </ul>
 
 <p>One thing about YouTube that is <em>not</em> a moral strike against it
@@ -52,7 +56,7 @@
 <p>If there are any nonfree programs running on YouTube servers, they
 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 any. But they do not mistreat
+use those nonfree programs, if any.  But those programs do not mistreat
 the <em>users</em> of that service, so they are not a reason to refuse
 to <em>use</em> YouTube.</p>
 
@@ -65,11 +69,10 @@
 
 <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>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>Another way to publish videos to the web using free software is
+<p>Another way to publish videos on 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
@@ -121,7 +124,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2015/02/02 03:50:51 $
+$Date: 2015/02/17 23:14:56 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>