[Deetman]

MAR gets around this with our YouTube webcast by feeding the microphones and game sounds to the DJ and the streaming system. YouTube is happy because we don't have copyrighted music playing but still have all the other audio, and the DJ can mix the microphones into their system. The music is never fed back into the stream input and any background audio from an open mic doesn't seem to be loud enough to trigger the copyright system. Unfortunately this may be harder to do at regionals because you don't have the same control over the event as we get with districts.

As far as why YouTube?
-auto archiving
-easy to use
-mobile YouTube just works and is preinstalled on almost all android devices, not sure about iOS.
-smart TVs have YouTube apps, others are present in some brands but not others
-pretty much anyone, despite age or technological know how knows how to use YouTube and is not afraid of it.
-Copyright infringement is copyright infringement whether you get in trouble for it or not. Unlike team provided webcasts, MAR has real assets that someone could come after through the legal system of they wanted to. Now is not the time to lecture on ethics though.