A 15 year old boy is now seriously making me mad. He's pissing me. He says if we put online Streaming Videos to our wordpress blog which are of course through other sites like Youtube, our adsense account will be blocked. He says this happened with him about which I'm quite sure it must be something else. Also about giving Download Links from websites like Rapidshare is danger according to him. Just wanted to make sure because I shared an Indian Drama Serial Online video which can be viewed via Online stream at my site. People record through TV and share it at websites like youtube. Is using them any danger ? According to him, such things are copyright which are an issue to Adsense. And 1st of all I think they are not copyright since they are openly available at websites like youtube. If anyone thinks its copyright please explain and also how this copyright thing harms adsense. 2ndly let's say if its copyright, then we are just sharing content which is actually hosted at other sites just like in a Forum. So of course it would not and should not harm out site. What do you think ?
As long there's no people complaining or file a report about your site, you should be safe. Nonetheless, I don't think it's worth it considering that the chances of you getting ban is quite high.
There is no problem in embedding youtube videos in blog. Giving download is little bit risky, as there is chance to give download of copy right contents / porn etc and google are concern about these. So better you dont put adsense in those pages.
That's right. The videos are fine I think as long as they are not hosted on our Server since we are just sharing. Links could be a danger but just asking like if they are Shared on Hosts like Rapidshare, are they still a danger ? Because basically we would just be sharing content which is actually hosted by Rapidshare so Rapidshare should be responsible if it's copyright . Adding a statement would be a good option for Videos/Links I think. What do you think ?
To be honest, he did not read rules. He's saying that according to what happened to him. I've read them like 5 times already and wait for updates too but didn't find this issue.
All you need to read is "AdSense publishers may not display Google ads on webpages with content protected by copyright law unless they have the necessary legal rights to display that content." That's it. https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=48182
I think you didn't understand what I'm saying. I am actually talking about what's considered Copyright and what's not ? Listen carefully. There are thousands of forums sharing content from other sites where users can just post what they like. Similarly there are blogs where the authors are responsible. What they actually do is bring content actually hosted by other sites so for me they are not responsible. Someone's copyright video ends up on Youtube and someone shares it. Of course he doesn't know it's copyright . He just shared it. And we just shared youtube. So actually youtube would be responsible, not us. When youtube, removes the video, it automatically gets removed from our site.
For you they are not responsible, but who are you? Are you a judge? Are you even an adsense employee? So if you rely only on your judgement, you'll be suprised one day. If you read adsense rules (again) you'll see that content for them is actual content on your page or even only LINKS to such content. So by embedding something in your page it's not a link it's really content published by your site. But what I say is that even a "link to" is considered content, it's written in clear in adsense policies. And of course, everything is fine until you get caught. That's why you can see MANY sites with copyrighted content including my own, surely since it's multi-users, user submitted content, and who still have adsense on the site. But that doesn't mean you'll not get into problems yourself.
... And the page showing the video becomes a page with just Advts and NO CONTENT , That can get you banned !
Thanks. This is just a danger to Adsense then not Google SERPS or something like penalization. Because I see other people with other ads and good SERPS