[klyrs]

My mom got bitten by this. After my dad died, she uploaded a video of him playing his violin with a baby on his lap. The music is in public domain, and it was demonstrably an original recording of a (sorry, dad) rank amateur. It got blocked so fast that my adult cousin, the baby in the video, couldn't watch it. This isn't understandable, it's ridiculous overreach.

[Minor49er]

Why didn't your mom just put it on a flash drive or something?

[klyrs]

She used youtube so she could share it with family spread across six states and three countries. How's the flash drive gonna help?

[Minor49er]

It turns the recording into a physical object and can be shared privately. Obviously YouTube is not the place for these kinds of family recordings because they aren't for a general audience and should not be subject to YouTube's various destructive treatments

[klyrs]

Across 6 states and 3 countries? We're talking a couple hundred bucks in postage and a malware vector. Thanks for the practical advice.

And, fwiw, the remainder of the old movies she put up didn't get flagged, so you're wrong about the fitness of the platform for dorky family videos.

[Minor49er]

I sincerely doubt that it would cost a couple hundred bucks for that amount of shipment. Further, if you're worried about an attack vector, put the videos on a mini-DVD or some other format that is also small and read-only.

And yeah, the remainder of the videos might not have been flagged, but we're talking about the one that did. Please keep the focus placed on the problem that you brought up.

[rrdharan]

You’re downvoted but I have a similar point / question.. there are many ways to share personal videos privately (text message, cloud photo sharing service etc.); YouTube is a terrible choice for this (despite some forays into that world long ago).

[mbreese]

Given the ubiquity of YouTube, that may have been the best option for uploading she had. Yes, “we” know there are many options, but when there is a bright, shiny, button that says “upload to YouTube” then why not use that? After all, that should also work for sharing videos with family members.

[Minor49er]

> when there is a bright, shiny, button that says “upload to YouTube” then why not use that?

This was already answered by klyrs further up the thread: because the videos are subject to YouTube's policies which commonly involve altering or destroying parts of the media without warning.