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LTT Ad-Blocking-is-Piracy Hot Take (Patreon)

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2022-01-31 12:00:06
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​ @Linus Tech Tips  recently tweeted that Ad-Blocking is Piracy. The proper response to a hot take is a video of my own hot take. Comment below!  

The LTT tweet: https://twitter.com/LinusTech/status/1486925588199718912

LTT Livestream discussing the tweet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-znPFc-0VS8&t=148s

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Gergely Varju

There are 2 cases where AdBlocking can be seen as copyright infringement: 1st: If you would "unlawfully" edit his creative creation without his consent... So the advertisement is seen as part of his content, and he is full (legally and morally) responsible for it... Linus isn't stupid enough to follow that route. 2nd: If we would break a DRM that would ensure that we can't get content without fulfilling our side of the contract first by using a 3rd party tool that isn't authorized in any way by the vendor who would also run the ads, who would have this DRM, etc. Here both YouTube (and the videos on it) and the store for Chrome plugins (and the ad blockers) are offered to you by Google (Alphabet).

Gergely Varju

About "piracy": in some countries we pay a huge empty media levy to a mandatory copyright collective to authorize copying for personal use including BitTorrent, and due to international treaties this money is distributed to creators with the help of copyright agencies and offices in various countries. So I already pay for the content, but Streaming services, can give me a more comfortable access, that doesn't use so much disc space, where I don't have to wait so much for downloading, etc.

David LeBlanc

I watched his live stream the following day and he mentioned that this is largely a miscommunication. He meant piracy as in "yaaar!" and not in the legal sense. However, I really think that isn't what that word means in any sense. When I go to YouTube, I am not agreeing to watch advertisements to watch online content. Instead, I am being given both an advertisement video and an online content video. I simply choose to watch only the online content video. Since I am cognizant of the amount of time and effort that goes into online video production, I choose to do a couple of things. First, I pay for a YouTube subscription to help pay for loss of ad revenue that was never going to be obtained by myself. Second, if a creator is someone who I enjoy, I try to support via Patreon or similar system. EDIT: (Hit enter too soon) That isn't really what bothered me about the situation though. What bothered me was his unwillingness to accept that he may have been using a word that wasn't what it was intended for. Whether it was regarding unauthorized use, the legal definition, or "walk off the plank, ye're matey". He spent about 15 minutes ranting about "a fact" which was actually only an opinion. I had to shut it off and watch someone else.