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Originally Posted by Bochek
I have responded to 2 emails from him. I have asked for proof of ownership of the YouTube account. I have not heard back yet. I will send him a PM tonight.
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You shouldn't need proof of ownership from anyone. Are they yours? Did someone else make them? Don't rip them and re-upload them.
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Originally Posted by Bochek
From what I can read, there are 2 main problems at hand. One is the fact that we don't credit the source, which I will fix. Second is the people who would rather fight to call something theirs (which I'm not trying to take away from them) instead of help the cause and help spread the word of FIRST.
If people have specific issues. Lets come up with ideas to solve them instead of just complaining.
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I guarantee you if you had taken the proper channels in order to receive explicit permission from the owners of the videos that you could rip them from their original source (this is apparently against some terms of service? I'm no lawyer) and re-host them, things would've been okay. But this isn't what you're doing. You're stealing from people. I can't go on to YouTube and steal my favorite One Direction music video and re-upload it somewhere else so I can serve ads on it. I didn't make it, I wasn't given explicit permission to use it, and I'm clearly profiting off of it.
Also,
we did suggest a solution.
Several times, in fact. Need another solution? Feel free to email me, I know how to drag and drop a few videos to a trash can. Is it on a server? Perfect. Here's my
ssh public keys. I'll login and remove them for you.
It doesn't take a programmer to make this right.
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Originally Posted by Lucario
It's always the same ad, too, which seems to suggest that the money from that ad is not for commercial reasons, but merely to pay for web hosting.
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Ads for free web hosting is exchanging a service for ads, as opposed to directly getting money to pay for web hosting. It's still an ad, they're still profiting off of it.