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This is not a Natoheadquarter
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youtube.com/watch?v=Az_GCJnXAI

27 October at 19:27 | Open on liberdon.com
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marathon

@begsby Haven't seen this in awhile: "Video unavailable
The uploader has not made this video available in your country"

27 October at 19:36 | Open on liberdon.com
tallship

@marathon @begsby

Hello my friend πŸ™‚

That's actually not true, or at least, it is a far cry from what either the artist or producer wants.

I first started seeing this banner again a few weeks back, and discovered that it actually affects thousands of top platinum artists and producers (podcasts too) due to a contract dispute between Google and, IIRC, the performance rights society #SESAC.

It doesn't affect any #BMI artists (such as myself) or those signed with #ASCAP however, which is the lions share of royalty collecting agencies.

I actually kinda figured this would have been resolved by now but I guess not.

Still, it's very misleading because of the inference that it's the creator who made this decision, when that's only true when you consider that it's by virtue of them having signed with a performance rights rep that isn't buying Google's predatory bullshit.

On another note, I've been advised by legal reps on a few occasions to supercede the only two licenses that Google affords any uploader by physically placing my own title board at the beginning of any videos with my preferred CC-BY-SA /NC /ND/Etc., Creative Commons License if that's what I so choose for any artistic works that I create and upload to the Google.

Google's motto? Do EVIL

#tallship #Copyright #licensing #monopoly #antitrust #fucking_scoundrels

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@marathon @begsby

Hello my friend πŸ™‚

That's actually not true, or at least, it is a far cry from what either the artist or producer wants.

I first started seeing this banner again a few weeks back, and discovered that it actually affects thousands of top platinum artists and producers (podcasts too) due to a contract dispute between Google and, IIRC, the performance rights society #SESAC.
27 October at 20:17 | Open on public.mitra.social
marathon

@tallship
Hey, good to hear from you! Did not know you were an artist - do you do live gigs? You've got that right about Google, they deleted my entire Youtube channel in June, because I had some Houthi vids that Youtube had on their platform (not uploaded by me). They weren't content to delete them, but my private ones as well. Some were of my grandchildren. I had used utube as a backup.
@begsby

27 October at 20:29 | Open on liberdon.com
tallship

@marathon @begsby

Good to know you've got backups elsewhere!

Also, I like (in the spirit of Fediverse and FOSS) to urge folks to search out good, stable and long term #PeerTube instances where they can also keep their content available and safe.

Don't forget, in case you decide to upload to #YouTube again later, that PeerTube has basically a one click function whereby you can clone everything of yours that resides on YouTube.

#tallship #FOSS #Fediverse

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27 October at 21:18 | Open on public.mitra.social
marathon

@tallship @begsby
Good point! I'm in the process of leaving everything Google, unfortunately I was using Google as my sole backup. So, I'm going to self host going forward. Can you recommend a good OS to put on my Pixel?

27 October at 21:33 | Open on liberdon.com
tallship

@marathon @begsby

Okay sounds great. If cloud storage is the biggest deal, then you should be able to find a $5 or $10 #VPS in the country of your choice that will certainly be performance enough. A few bucks more for a decent amount of storage:

https://github.com/nextcloud

If you need more than that, and you're self-hosting NextCloud, then #Wasabi can extend your NextCloud space with #S3 compatible storage buckets that you can literally just plug into your #NextCloud server for dirt cheap terabytes:

https://wasabi.com/#free-trial

This is also an excellent solution for your on demand videos (VoD) that you self-hosted on your own #PeerTube instance (You can run that PeerTube server on the same VPS as your NextCloud insurance too) 🀠.

#Degoogling.... Awesome πŸ‘

There's several major choices and even more services that offer solutions. Some turnkey.

My two favs are #GraphineOS and #CalyxOS. I don't tend to pay too much attention to the rivalry and apparent enmity between these two camps, because they're both trying to support the same thing with respect to #freedoms, so if you already have a #Pixel I think I'd recommend:

https://grapheneos.org/ and there's literally boatloads of videos at your disposal for the DIY. I will say, that although it's quite marginal, my experience has been that this is slightly faster (responsive), but the last time I benchmarked was on a Pixel 3XL that I still enjoy as one of my daily drivers.

The #Calyx_Institute is a well known long-time champion of freedom and protections from #industrial_surveillance #dystopia and I do recommend that folks use the "MiFi" membership service. Here's a little known privacy fact #ProTip - their mobile service anonymizes you - your name appears nowhere in the 5G cellular service plan with the carrier, so you're only one of thousands of 5G devices that's identified by only, "Calyx Institute".

It's pretty much the cheapest plan available anywhere too, and gets even cheaper the second year:

https://calyxinstitute.org/membership/internet

You can also purchase a brand new degoogled phone at a great price too with CalyxOS preinstalled:

https://calyxinstitute.org/membership/calyxos - this is my personal fav, but like I said, GraphineOS and CalyxOS are both phenomenal and GraphineOS is prolly a bit more anal where you're privacy is concerned.

And there's also https://Brax.me - Rob Braxman, he sells degoogled phones and is a great resource for privacy education, but I think I'd opt for one of the previously mentioned #ROMs to flash my #Android.

If you get some time, you might be interested in reading up a bit on Nick Merrill - imagine being in the position of not even being able to attend your own court hearings because that would be a felony❕❕❕ Your attorney can go and represent you, but you cannot. You cannot even tell your own wife ❕❕

He was the first man to fight the injustice of an NSL and to my understanding, to date being the only successful person to do so, which is the only reason we are aware of it today.

It's a very scary thing and he has blogged about his fight and dilemma extensively. It's worth a deep dive and will reinforce why you are doing the right thing by eschewing Google services.

https://calyxinstitute.org/about

I hope that helps!

#tallship #fOSS #privacy

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@marathon @begsby

Okay sounds great. If cloud storage is the biggest deal, then you should be able to find a $5 or $10 #VPS in the country of your choice that will certainly be performance enough. A few bucks more for a decent amount of storage:

https://github.com/nextcloud

If you need more than that, and you're self-hosting NextCloud, then #Wasabi can extend your NextCloud space with #S3 compatible storage buckets that you can literally just plug into your #NextCloud server for dirt cheap terabytes:

28 October at 19:34 | Open on public.mitra.social
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