[nycbug-talk] YouTube Channel for BSD Technical Talks

[Okan Demirmen]

On Thu 2008.12.04 at 13:09 -0500, Isaac Levy wrote:
> Hey All,
> 
> On Dec 4, 2008, at 11:09 AM, Steven Kreuzer wrote:
> 
> > On Dec 4, 2008, at 10:45 AM, Miles Nordin wrote:
> >
> >>>>>>> "sk" == Steven Kreuzer <skreuzer at exit2shell.com> writes:
> >>
> >>   sk> It looks like Murray Stokely is putting together a channel on
> >>   sk> YouTube with videos of BSD technical talks.
> >>
> >> Wouldn't it make sense to post the videos in a format BSD users can
> >> watch without using COMPAT_LINUX
> >
> > Then run Firefox under wine.
> 
> Wow you both have excellent points.
> 
> While I agree that the video content should be open and free from any  
> particular 3rd party copyright or access control, YouTube is currently  
> the cheapest and easiest video distribution system to date...  And  
> grandma can use it...
> 
> However, in lieu of what we as BSD Advocates should do when posting  
> videos, Lawrence Lessig recently posted some guidelines aimed at the  
> Obama administration, which I feel could be applied more generally to  
> us:
> http://open-government.us/
> If things like Video posting gets too legalistic, the BSD License will  
> get as long and contentious as the GPL- but at the very least, this is  
> very good food for thought...
> 
> --
> And BTW- If anyone wants to download an mp4 format of YouTube stuff,  
> give http://keepvid.com/ a whirl...

you of all people should know youtube-dl