Block Blender that YouTube published videos without advertisement, Blender challenges free streaming with P2P

Open source software " Blender " for modeling 3D graphics published movies that explain how to use software etc on "You are not advertising" on YouTube, but YouTube requested publication with advertisement. When I refused this, I heard that the movies released by Blender from YouTube were blocked one by one. So Blender released its history on a blog and announced that he is challenging to build a movie streaming site by himself.

YouTube Blocks Blender Videos Worldwide - blender.org
https://www.blender.org/media-exposure/youtube-blocks-blender-videos-worldwide/

Blender developer Blender Foundation (BF) has released a movie containing the usage of software and the state of lecture by engineers on YouTube since 2008. From the feature of Blender called open source software, it seems that all BF movies were released as "ad free" with no advertisement.

BF received a report from Blender users living in the US in 2017 that the movie of Andrew Price's lecture "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Artists" at the Blender conference was unavailable for viewing.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Artists - YouTube

The above movie is a popular movie that is about 1.2 million times played, BF contacted YouTube to solve the disadvantage that users can not watch, asking what is the problem. In the returned e-mail, I received the information from the experts that it is necessary to activate movie advertisement, which means that your movie will be viewable in the USA if it is enabled He said that.

Mr. Ton Rosendaal of BF told that it is a non-profit purpose and is a free advertisement-free policy and asked if YouTube's terms and conditions were changed.

Then, the answer "I want you to wait for a while because I am discussing with your expert about your problem" returned.

The exchange continued without solving the problem, and on June 12, 2018, Mr. Roosendael once again sent an e-mail asking the situation to YouTube side and said that it was a reply that "Since the survey is continuing, please wait" about. But three days later on June 15th BF's YouTube channel movies were blacked out all over the world, and BF seems to be effectively locked out on YouTube.

In response to YouTube's response to make movies unviewable without explanation, Mr. Rosendaal uploaded a movie to protest on YouTube. And, in that, he says he decided to move the movie that was on BF's YouTube channel to " cloud.blender.org ".

YouTube Blocks Blender Videos Worldwide - YouTube


As declared by Mr. Rosendaal, " Be sure to come back", BF began publishing movie contents possessed using a distributed streaming platform managed by PeerTube, a P2P system. At the time of article creation, only 8 movies are uploaded yet, but in the future, movies are likely to be released one after another.

Recently added videos - Blender
https://video.blender.org/

Mr. Roosendaar revealed on June 18, 2018 that the legal agreement was received from Google on the blog, and also publishes the agreement covering 6 pages as follows. The main point of the long written document is that "BF will accept YouTube's monetization policy".

CONTENT LICENCE AGREEMENT

After all, BF seems to have withdrawn from YouTube in order to keep up with the non-profit policy, and seems to have chosen the way to build streaming movie contents independently, but Sean Tilley of visual artist about this policy, It is an exciting movement in that the major players of the free software ecosystem are exploring the way of distributed media.We hope that BF will continue this policy.This is Fediverse The world) may be a very positive community as part of the Blender project, "he admired BF's challenge.