YouTube legal team contacted us · Issue #3872 · iv-org/invidious
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They don't understand that we never agreed to any of their TOS/policies, they don't understand that we don't use their API. What now? Things will continue normally until they can't anymore. Assume ...

Youtube’s lawyers are going after Invidious, the alternative open source front end to YouTube. Enshittification never stops huh?

  • V4ubanEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    I know Peertube, but I don’t see any Peertube instance able to handle the load of even a fraction of YouTube viewers

    • cerevantEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      The point of a federated network isn’t to lock out businesses, it is to prevent businesses from basing their business model on lock-in. It is exactly the same model as e-mail: I can get ad-funded email from google, I can pay Apple or Microsoft to host my email, or I can spin up my own server and manage it myself.

    • ZonessOPEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Oh sure, I agree with you there. For video I don’t see how you can get away from a deeply capital-influenced project because it still requires such tremendous resource scaling.