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 <h2>Posting Videos</h2>
 
 <address class="byline">by Richard Stallman</address>
 
 <p>You don't need a &ldquo;free software based streaming platform&rdquo;
 to post a video for streaming.</p>
 
 <p>Someone asked me where to upload a video recording on some &ldquo;free
 software based streaming platform.&rdquo; Here's how I responded.</p>
 
 <ul>
 <li>
 What software the <em>platform</em> is based on is not crucial,
 because that has no effect on the people who use that site.
 They don't run that software. What they do is talk with the site.</li>
 
 <li>
 The crucial question for the users' freedom is whether the site
 requires them, or leads them, to run any nonfree software,
 including nonfree JavaScript code.</li>
 
 <li>
 Any web site can host a file of video in such a way that any browser
 can view it without <em>any</em> JavaScript. Just put the file of
 video onto the site, and tell people its URL. Any modern graphical
 browser, when it encounters a file of video, will stream it.</li>
 
 <li>
 The only special thing about &ldquo;video platform&rdquo; sites is
 that they have other auxiliary facilities, such as making accounts,
 uploading videos, tracking users who watch them, and restricting those
 users. You don't need those things.</li>
 
 <li>
 To distribute the URL of the video and enable users to watch it,
 all you do need is a site that you can post the file on.
 It could be your own web site, either running on your own server or hosted
 elsewhere.</li>
 </ul>
 
 <p>Depending on the rest of that site, it may have other flaws or moral
 problems, but it will at least avoid directly mistreating users who
 watch the video.</p>
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