The Verge | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net KitGuru.net - Tech News | Hardware News | Hardware Reviews | IOS | Mobile | Gaming | Graphics Cards Thu, 30 Mar 2023 10:00:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-KITGURU-Light-Background-SQUARE2-32x32.png The Verge | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net 32 32 Leo Says 37: Honest Reviews, The Verge VOX takedown BitWit, W3175X, ROG Dominus, AMD profits! https://www.kitguru.net/channel/zardon/leo-says-37-honest-reviews-the-verge-vox-takedown-bitwit-w3175x-rog-dominus-amd-profits/ https://www.kitguru.net/channel/zardon/leo-says-37-honest-reviews-the-verge-vox-takedown-bitwit-w3175x-rog-dominus-amd-profits/#respond Sat, 16 Feb 2019 15:24:03 +0000 https://www.kitguru.net/?p=404213 Leo is back after a brief hiatus and this week he has a lot of topics to discuss. He discusses the post I made a few weeks ago as well as VOX Media taking on BitWit for a takedown on their 'build a PC video' from months ago. It failed. Leo also discusses Intel's new W3175X £3,000 processor, the ROG Dominus motherboard, G.Skill's new high capacity memory kits and many other topics. It's a good video, even by LEO's standards.

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Leo is back after a brief hiatus and this week he has a lot of topics to discuss. He discusses the post I made a few weeks ago on honest reviews and ‘influencers' as well as VOX Media taking on BitWit for a takedown on their ‘build a PC video' from months ago. It failed. Leo also discusses Intel's new W3175X £3,000 processor, the ROG Dominus motherboard, G.Skill's new high capacity memory kits and many other topics. It's a good video, even by LEO's standards.

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00:11 Minor News
01:09 Intel has launched 28-core Xeon W-3175X at £3,000
02:00 Asus ROG Dominus has been priced at US$2,000
03:15 Memory companies such as G.Skill have launched hex-channel DDR4 kits from 48GB to 192GB
04:20 Laptops with Nvidia RTX graphics have gone on sale
06:10 Softbank sold it US$3.6 Billion holding in Nvidia presumably because Crypto has crashed
06:53 Nvidia GTX 1660 Ti is imminent
07:48 AMD has launched Radeon VII and the world has yawned
10:36 AMD made a profit in the previous quarter! The highest since 2011
12:50 The Verge VOX Media attack Bit Wit – with takedown of video – they failed.
16:27 KitGuru Editor In Chief Allan Campbell publishes about ‘honest reviews' and influencers

LEOS NOTES:
Minor news in recent times:
TSMC had a bad batch of wafers
Bob Swan is now CEO of Intel after seven months in the interim role.
Apple had a security problem with group calling on FaceTime
Mayhems is suing Thermaltake over its use of the word ‘Pastel’

Bigger news:
Intel has launched 28-core Xeon W-3175X at £3,000
Asus ROG Dominus has been priced at US$2,000

Memory companies such as G.Skill have launched hex-channel DDR4 kits from 48GB to 192GB

G.Skill launches hexa-channel DDR4 kits with up to 192GB running at 4GHz


Prices will likely be £2,000 to £3,000 for the highest end kits

Laptops with Nvidia RTX graphics have gone on sale
Prices are steep, typically from £2,000 to £3,500 and rising as far as £4,500
We reviewed Gigabyte Aero 15-X9 and I am working on PC Specialist Octane VI RTX

Softbank sold it US$3.6 Billion holding in Nvidia presumably because Crypto has crashed
Nvidia GTX 1660 Ti is imminent

AMD has launched Radeon VII and the world has yawned
Der 8auer claims the drivers are horribly broken but is the lack of overclocking a problem or more of a feature in a data centre GPU?
And is AMD fussed, as they are still clearly holding stocks of Polaris and VEGA GPUs?

AMD made a profit in the previous quarter! The highest since 2011
Margins up from 34 percent to 38 percent
Revenues for Q1 2019 expected to dip as they continue to clear out excess GPUs remaining from the Crypto crash.

Allan’s column about ethics and bought reviews

The Verge, owned by Vox Media, tried to take down Bit Wit Kyle’s video and failed.
Kyle’s video is clearly new content rather than a basic reaction video
Their video from the Intel keynote at CES was nine minutes of clips with zero analysis
Why did they take action now when the original video went up in September 2018
Seems they have a thin skin or are poorly suited to report on technology

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The Verge retracts copyright claims against YouTubers, says videos were still not Fair Use https://www.kitguru.net/channel/generaltech/matthew-wilson/the-verge-retracts-copyright-claims-against-youtubers-says-videos-were-still-not-fair-use/ https://www.kitguru.net/channel/generaltech/matthew-wilson/the-verge-retracts-copyright-claims-against-youtubers-says-videos-were-still-not-fair-use/#respond Fri, 15 Feb 2019 17:28:06 +0000 https://www.kitguru.net/?p=404205 Yesterday, Vox Media and The Verge were found to be sending out copyright strikes against two specific channels for reacting to a PC build guide video from several months ago. At the time, the two channels affected disputed the claims and were able to get them retracted fairly swiftly. At the time, neither Vox Media …

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Yesterday, Vox Media and The Verge were found to be sending out copyright strikes against two specific channels for reacting to a PC build guide video from several months ago. At the time, the two channels affected disputed the claims and were able to get them retracted fairly swiftly. At the time, neither Vox Media nor The Verge had said anything publicly about the situation, although that changed today.

In a post addressing the copyright strike situation, The Verge's Nilay Patel explained their side of the story. According to Patel, Vox's legal team singled two reaction videos out in particular and decided that they did not fall under fair use due to the amount of footage used from The Verge's original (now deleted) video.

According to The Verge, only two videos were issued takedown notices, while other critical videos remained up and unaffected. We mentioned the two channels in question yesterday, with the first being Bitwit and the other being ReviewTechUSA.

Kyle from Bitwit tweeted the response he received from YouTube, in which YouTube took a stance and said that Kyle's video fell under fair use- the strike on his channel was then removed. A little later on, ReviewTechUSA also had the strike on his channel removed.

According to Patel, he actually sent emails to have the two strikes retracted himself and posted proof of a brief email sent through to YouTube's copyright team. It seems that at least in the case of Bitwit, YouTube was set on taking action before the email was sent.

The Verge is sticking to its stance that the two videos on question were in violation of Fair Use but it looks like the site isn't interested in taking the situation any further, particularly after the backlash these strikes caused online.

KitGuru Says: There is a legal precedent protecting reaction videos on YouTube, in large part thanks to the lengthy lawsuit that H3H3 went through and won. With that in mind, I don't necessarily think that Vox Media would have won a court case had this gone any further. Still, the legal system is a tricky beast, so it could have gone either way. Thankfully, it looks like both sides are dropping this entirely and looking to move on. 

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Vox Media caught trying to suppress criticism from tech YouTubers with false DMCA notices https://www.kitguru.net/channel/generaltech/matthew-wilson/vox-media-caught-trying-to-supress-criticism-from-tech-youtubers-with-false-dmca-notices/ https://www.kitguru.net/channel/generaltech/matthew-wilson/vox-media-caught-trying-to-supress-criticism-from-tech-youtubers-with-false-dmca-notices/#respond Thu, 14 Feb 2019 16:06:24 +0000 https://www.kitguru.net/?p=404096 A familiar tale of false copyright strikes, YouTube drama and big media companies attempting to suppress Fair Use.

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Last year, Vox-owned website, The Verge, released a $2,000 gaming PC build guide on YouTube. Almost immediately, commenters and more knowledgeable tech YouTube channels began picking the video apart due to the poor advice it gave first-time builders. Things on that front went quiet for a few months, until last night, when Vox Media began issuing Copyright strikes against YouTube channels.

The build guide was originally posted to The Verge's YouTube channel. The video initially had comments disabled and was then removed entirely. The accompanying guide article still remains live though and people can find the video easily enough, as large chunks of it were preserved by tech channels critiquing or parodying the guide.

Channels like Bitwit and ReviewTechUSA were hit with copyright strikes on YouTube after Vox Media manually issued DMCA claims. False copyright strikes have been an issue on YouTube for a long time now. Time and again, companies have taken advantage of the system to suppress criticism, even when it violates Fair Use law in the United States. This penalises YouTube channels, which can be left without access to certain features after receiving a strike. Getting a strike removed can also be a painful process with no guarantee of success.

The ironic part is that The Verge itself regularly reports on YouTube's copyright problems. Which makes the decision to attempt issuing copyright strikes even more baffling.

Sure enough, after news of the copyright strikes came out, other YouTubers and fans across social media began speaking out against Vox's decision. This in turn, caught YouTube's attention, enabling Bitwit to get the copyright strike removed from his channel. In an email sent to him, YouTube stated that the video fell within Fair Use and that Vox Media's copyright claim was unwarranted and has thus been removed.

Other channels are still waiting to have their claims removed but it looks like YouTube is keeping on top of the situation for a change.

KitGuru Says: YouTube can be slow when it comes to taking a stand on Fair Use but in this case, it looks like the company got around to fixing the issue quickly. Ultimately, Vox Media should have known better- DMCA strikes against critical videos never, ever go down well and only serve to invite backlash. 

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