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AFAIK, Bloomberg used a clip of the video and then made a claim against the video they themselves clipped. Maybe it’s due to some automated system.
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get fucked customsfaggot, can't buy shit without some customs nigger trying to tax shit for gay reasons.
according to what someone said, bloomberg themselves are doing investigations but if this is true then i hope GN can assrape them due to the sheer absurdity of it, taking snippets of someone's video and copyright striking them is just extreme levels of gaytarded.
always remember, you don't hate journalists enough.
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I was under the impression that Intel quick sync video is way better rendering but... That might have been a Plex forum I was on...
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Intel Quick Sync is proabably better for your home media server, but for media production like GN does you want something that's quick and efficient in encoding large heavily edited projects. By the end of the day YouTube is going to assrape the quality with VP9 anyways, so you only care about the workflow towards the finished project, not about how quickly it decodes on your thin client Plex server or how good it looks at a low file size.
Speaking of, seems like they've finally moved their news reads to a separate channel so I can finally subscribe to L1T without having to worry about their podcast taking up 90% of my sub feed.
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Some of his stuff is cool, but I don't like how he kind of expects his audience to be able to spend multi-thousands on hobby server shit. He calls SAS Flash drives cheap, for one.
Also it was funny how he got assblasted in the comments for saying mandatory raytracing in games is le good (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5djherMrQ4Y)
GamersNexus included a 3min Bloomberg segment in their video.
Check it out at 21:40
Steve is wrong. This is a copyright violation. It isn't Fair Use because it isn't transformative and there is no criticism or discussion about it directly. It's just a Bloomberg segment they copied directly for your consumption.
But GN pushes the conspiracy standpoint, doesn't tell you the reason for the DMCA and doesn't tell you about that segment and doesn't even mention that it is Bloomberg in his comments about it.
I am so tired of this DramaNexus shit.
Yes, those big corporations are bad and those media conglomerates are as well. I also dislike LTT.
But GN rarely ever has a case. Everybody who isn't blinded by bias will realize that:
- GN did violate Bloombergs Copyright here
- There is no grand Chinese or NVIDIA conspiracy against the video
- GN didn't tell his viewers what the DMCA strike is about
- LTT was under no obligation to steer drama about Honey
- GN dismissed their Honey lawsuit under prejudice and didn't tell his viewers about it
- but he did keep the donations that he got for that lawsuit and doesn't bother funding other people who actually go through with their lawsuits against Honey
- If GN doesn't like that free GPUs, received before release, come under requirements - he should buy his own GPU, this would also eliminate Golden Samples
- Everybody knows that someone, who makes reviews on a gifted devices, will be shilling in favor of it, because its in his interest - if you don't want to be a shill, do not take free samples
- His "sent by the manufacturer" disclaimer, that he puts on his videos when the reviewed device is a free gift, is misleading
Sorry for the blog post, but i am so fucking tired of Steves bullshit. I would be on Steves side in every single one of those matters, IF Steve would be HONEST. But everything he does seems to be misleading and for shekels. Even his own subreddit is now the opinion that he steers dishonest drama for the views.
Fair Use isn't about a percentage or length.
If you make a 5 day long video and include a 2 hours Marvel movie inside, you get taken down. If you make a movie review and include clips of the movie to criticize, that is Fair Use.
If GamersNexus doesn't like Copyright laws (i don't like them either), he can run for president and change the laws. But under the current laws his included Bloomberg section is a blatant Copyright violation.
The best thing you get out of this, is GamersNexus asking you for money to launch a lawsuit, and then dropping the lawsuit under prejudice yet again, but keeping your money. Wouldn't be the first time.
Also ask yourself why GamersNexus doesn't tell you what the DMCA strike is about, but lets you speculate about the evil Chinese or the tech overlords taking it down instead.
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That’s a clip of Trump speaking at the White House. Everything from the government is public domain by law. Just because Bloomberg broadcast it doesn’t mean they hold the copyright over it. Did you mean to show a different timestamp?
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Imagine unironically going on reddit, of all fucking places, and going "see, even his audience thinks what he did was bad"
Works created by the US government are public domain. That doesn't include a recorded TV broadcast made by news media.
So you can make a transcript of the spoken words, but you can't take a video recording of news media and republish that. There are exceptions like C-SPAN, who cease their copyright of public speeches for non-commercial use.
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Is that clip recorded by Bloomberg though? The White House uses a single recording setup that it distributes to the press. They don’t allow every news company to bring its own camera in to do a recording, that’s absurd. The clip was created by the government, it is public domain. Bloomberg is simply distributing the recording.
There is a press pool that gets filled with news media and some of them get places in the back to record.
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This was a multiple camera setup, so if it was done by Bloomberg they would have had to have more than one camera. The original clip on Bloomberg’s YouTube doesn’t mention anything about the Copyright, and the channel itself doesn’t make any mention or guarantee about the nature of the recordings there.
Steve should have done due diligence to ensure the clip was a U.S. gov recording and not from Bloomberg. Since he hasn’t mention he did that, seems like he fucked up and should take the L, remove that portion and reupload. It’s not even an important part of the video.
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Thanks for your professional copyright analysis. However since the validity of such complaints is determined on a case by case basis, I will use the information you've just provided to assume in good faith that you are actually FOR the DMCA as it exists currently. If you weren't, then you would have interpreted the facts of the case more generously for the defendant, like I did. Thanks for your contribution.
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But this isn't a 2 hour movie in a 5 day long video. This is a 3 minute clip directly relating to the points of the documentary.
This is probably the most relevant law. I'm honestly surprised Carl won that case. Obviously it depends on the judge/jury, but the case did set a precedent.
He did tell his audience he had dropped hid lawsuit, but it was on the second channel:
but you're right that he didn't mentioned what happened to any money he raised. A considerable amount of it probably went to the lawyers leading up to them dropping the suit, but the rest probably went into their legal budget.
I think the nVidia/reviewer thing was important to cover. The tit-for-tat when it came to access to engineers, and the way nVidia tries to strong arm reviewers is pretty shitty and worth talking about. He's not wrong in that the company no longer gives a shit about consumers and has shifted entirely to enterprise.
The first Tariffs documentary was pretty good, the second one was boring and had way too much of that idiot from Hyte. I don't think I made it more than 30 min in.
And I agree with you about the recent smuggling one. There is no grand conspiracy by the CCP/nVidia against this video; just some automated system from Bloomberg. GN should be upfront about that. Considering the insane amount of money they raised for this nothing-burger of a documentary, they could probably just pay Bloomberg for the rights (I can't image it being more than $5k) or just re-upload it with the C-SPAN version and release a statement that they learned a lesson and should have used the C-SPAN version to begin with. It could be a helpful "lesson learned" to help all other people who make videos.
The fact there's a 3 minute speech clip in there goes to the original problems with GN videos: the bloat. These long documentaries are bloated just like the review videos. I don't mind the bloated reviews because I just keep them on as background noise while I'm coding, but that long form doesn't really work for documentaries. I know people who refused to even start the tariff video just looking at the 3 hour length.
Calling out LTT was the right thing to do, because they got things more wrong than ChatGPT (and that was before the LLM/AI era). But I think that lead to the start of hubiris with this whole investagative/consumer advocay thing they're pushing. I also imagine that staff is going to get really burned out at some point with all the stuff they've been trying to cram lately. They've gotta be working 60~70 hours a week these days. That's not sustainable. For as much as Steve says, "..this isn't our area.." they're really getting out of their wheelhouse with the consumer advocacy stuff.
It will be interesting to see if they admit their mistakes in the coming year, or just start going down the lolcow route; turning into LTT and the other things they advocate against.
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I personally use a HP gen9 Xeon server with a Tesla P4 that I got for free, obviously I could slim that down just for Plex alone but... I'm being worked to the bone and don't have time
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It is funny that Steve’s TDS ultimately led to his video getting taken down, fair or not.
Yes, i didn't go into every detail and my blog post is written out of annoyance.
About the Honey case. The multiple class-action lawsuits got merged into one. GamersNexus knew that this would happen. They talked about that in their video, when they announced the lawsuit and shilled merch for it, but they didn't tell you that they would drop out in that case:
After it got merged, ten plaintiffs dropped out. However, only one of those ten did it with prejudice: GamersNexus.
Prejudice means that you believe that you don't have a case or settled. Without prejudice means that you dismiss for reasons independent of the subject of the case (you got no money, others are already suing, you made a mistake when filing,...), which leaves the door open to sue again.
Why specifically did Steve dismiss under prejudice?
His three reasons were:
- reporting about it (it has been two months since he dropped out, did he report anything he wouldn't have been able to report otherwise?)
- others have a stronger case (already knew that before launching it)
- subpoenas (can happen even after dropping out and even without ever being a plaintiff in the first place, which he showed in the very video)
It is dishonest. At the minimum. And doesn't even try to explain why with prejudice.
And this dishonesty is everywhere.
When you see this disclaimer, it actually means: "The manufacturer gifted this device to us and we are allowed to keep it".