So you’ve all see videos from channels like Emkay and Updoot Studios or the like right? The ones that shamelessly steal Reddit content and reads it, no attribution or linkback to the original, all while making fuck-you levels of ad revenue?
Are we going to start seeing those channels pivot to Lemmy soon? What’s everyone’s thoughts on that?
I find the idea mostly frustrating because you just know that they’re all rich. All their videos have millions or tens of millions of views and all of them are monetized. In fact they go out of their way to water down edgy posts to keep AdSense happy while diluting and destroying whatever humor the vulgarities in that post might have been intended to bring. Meanwhile, Lemmy devs are mostly unpaid since it’s an open source project, and most instance owners are losing money on server costs in order to host a space for people to enjoy.
Hey, if any YouTube channels see this and you end up making Lemmy content videos, instead of offering lip service on how much you support creators or this platform or anything, maybe take some of your Lemmy content revenue and donate it to the development fund or to the instance where you got the content from, thanks. Then people will be less likely to say you stole it.
I really hope so, as far as I’m concerned that means we’ve won.
Suffering from success.
But I hope there’s some legal bull shit in the eula that lets Lemmy dmca them. Stealing from open source rubs me the wrong way.
I feel as if somehow claiming ownership of user content in the EULA in a way that would be DMCA enforceable would also be antithetical to the tenets of open source software.
They could write it in such a way that Lemmy doesn’t own the comments, but they can protect copyright on behalf of their users, unless the user opts out. But the Lemmy devs are too busy making the software to do this regardless. Guess we’ll just have to crowd source it.
@Communist @HiddenLayer5 I feel like we should establish license related metadata to activitypub posts, so a photo can be tagged with creative commons or whatever. The problem that the average person doesn’t have the financial or legal strength against larger groups
Maybe we should get on it first and pump the income back into lemmy development and instance running costs.
Why wants to start a clickbait content theft YouTube channel with me?
I’m thinking about how we can automate the processes
Pretty much what Updoot Studios does. All their content is text to speech and I suspect they have a web scraper that auto-posts videos. All their videos are the top comments of the top posts on AskReddit. Wonder if they will be affected by the new API changes.
