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Peertube

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A free software to take back control of your videos

Peertube is an open, federated alternative to Youtube without advertising or tracking. On this site, you can find a good Peertube instance, with good rules, good moderation and most importantly a friendly community.

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Can we seed peertube videos in standard torrent apps? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 years ago by downdaemon@lemmy.ml to c/peertube@lemmy.ml
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I know libtorrent added webtorrent support a while back, how does it work? I tried it in qBittorrent and Transmission, and it downloads from the webseed only

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[โ€“] Amicchan@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Could copyright sharks watch those repositories and issue copyright FUD?

[โ€“] AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Sure, but the vast majority of Peertube videos are under open licenses like Creative Commons, and I'm pretty sure you need to agree to having your video be torrented in the Peertube TOS when you upload. Basically, most videos made for Peertube is specifically meant by the creator to be shared in this way.

Of course, this wouldn't apply to if someone uploaded a pirated movie or show, but seeing how regular torrents for those are everywhere, I doubt they're having much luck taking them down. Think at best they'd be able to DMCA the home Peertube instance and get the main copy and listing taken down.