Why my account 'video4' suspended

[iikasmani21]

I am not uploading any video all video are embedded from youtube. we are not hosting any video. and youtube has no copyright videos. please check it again

 

[techairlines]

Checking... hmm whats in the 126 MB zip file that's on your account?

 

[iikasmani21]

it is backup of my site you can delete it

---------- Post added at 04:48 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:43 PM ----------

you can extract file and see it is nothing but taken a backup of site after making zip this zip file is just backup of site. nothing else

 

[techairlines]

Since this was a manual suspension, meaning someone looked through your account and suspended it, I forwarded this issue to higher-up staff and they will look into it soon.

 

[masshuu]

I am not in a position to say yes or no, but given the legally grey area of linking to copyright infringing work(or videos in this case) the suspension may have merit. Whiles you may not think it, as your simply linking to another website, the same basis(linking to other websites) has gotten several websites taken offline in the past year.

 

[Livewire]

I'm updating the reason to one that fits a bit better since it does indeed seem you were right.

The new problem is youtube.php is acting as a proxy/content scraper and is going to their site and scraping all the links for videos matching a search. I've seen some youtube video sites here that don't get suspended because what they're embedding isn't questionable, AND because they have to manually enter the links. This one's using our bandwidth any time someone loads youtube.php because it goes to them to run the search, which uses up our bandwidth, and then comes back with the results.


Under the script hosting policy in our TOS which explicitly disallows content scraping, we can't do much with this one either way.