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

[Richard M. Stallman]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       16/10/03 20:19:08

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

Log message:
        Update for progress in making libre access to YouTube easier.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/whats-wrong-with-youtube.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.19&r2=1.20

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 1.19
retrieving revision 1.20
diff -u -b -r1.19 -r1.20
--- whats-wrong-with-youtube.html       26 Mar 2016 15:55:18 -0000      1.19
+++ whats-wrong-with-youtube.html       3 Oct 2016 20:19:08 -0000       1.20
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 cite <a href="http://audio-video.gnu.org/";>audio-video.gnu.org</a> as
 the site for videos of my speeches &mdash; not YouTube.</p>
 
-<p>There are two reasons why YouTube is a bad choice for where to post
+<p>There are two problems with YouTube as a place to pst
 videos or refer to videos.</p>
 
 <ul>
@@ -27,20 +27,8 @@
 
    <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>
+   mode was deprecated by YouTube as of January 2015.)</li>
   </ul>
-
-   <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 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> (or some
-   other programs).
-.</p>
-
-   <p>However, most users don't use these methods, so putting a video
-   on YouTube directs them towards nonfree software.</p>
 </li>
 
 <li>YouTube tries to stop people from downloading copies.
@@ -50,24 +38,37 @@
    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
-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>The free software community has made progress in overcoming these
+problems.  It is getting easier to access YouTube videos without
+running nonfree software.  Indeed, the HTML5 Video Everywhere add-on
+for Firefox (included in IceCat) takes care of this, though it occasionally
+breaks temporarily when sites change their undocumented APIs.</p>
+
+<p>However, most users don't use such methods, so putting a video on
+YouTube usually leads people to watch it by running nonfree
+software.</p>
+
+<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 whether the servers run any nonfree software,
+because it has no effect on us &mdash; 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 aspect of its
 computing.  We hope that Google will reclaim its freedom by ceasing to
 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>
+the <em>users</em> of YouTube, so they are not a reason to refuse
+to <em>use</em> that service.</p>
+
+<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>
+option: viewing their videos in the normal way requires nonfree
+JavaScript code.  If there is any commercial video-hosting platform
+that doesn't have this problem, please inform us.</p>
 
 <hr/>
 
@@ -128,7 +129,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2016/03/26 15:55:18 $
+$Date: 2016/10/03 20:19:08 $
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 </p>
 </div>