Summary: We respect Youtube, its Terms of Service [Ref 3] and
Community
Guidelines; we never broke Youtube rules; we ourselves flag videos when
we see youtube rules are broken by others; and we teach our viewers to
respect youtube rules. What happened is a sad accidental unfortunate
public browser Firefox funtionality, that we carefully analysed, and
will take every measure this does not happen again!
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Hello, Youtube!
Please watch our explanation of the problem that our channel MultfilmyTV experienced on December 17-18, and that caused its suspension!
In this video we will show that our browser Firefox [Ref.1] default feature of "session restore" [Ref.2] on December 17, 2017 could be misunderstood by youtube servers as the usage of "automated system (including, without limitation, any robot, spider or offline reader)", prohibited in Youtube Terms of Service Item 5H [Ref.3].
We will also show how our screen setup is organized for screen capture livestreams using two Firefox browser windows with a number of tabs with youtube pages (opened one at a time!), and a backup PC logged in, for effective and interactive livestreams.
We will also show that our Firefox is not an offline reader, and that we operate it manually and reasonably, to use respectfully standard youtube features.
This video can be also viewed directly at facebook, here
The above video has 19 slides of screenshots of suspect computer, with
explanation (till time code 3 min 30 sec of video) followed by two supplements:
short screen-captured clips that add to our evidence. Both included clips are a part of longer screen-captured-video evidence, also available at facebook video (Supplements A, B and C listed below):
Supplement A.
MultfilmyTV after-suspension video (12 min) explanation of human only public browser Firefox operation, and screen-capture of browser windows and tabs with several youtube pages opened on December 18 (one at a time) before the channel suspension. This screen capture video was recorded 21 December 2017 and includes the proof this browser is not an offline reader (at 5 min 20 sec, when I accidentally click on a dead link at our channel as this page was opened befor channel suspension):
https://www.facebook.com/multfilmytv/videos/1640326432694082/
Supplement B.
MultfilmyTV test of Firefox session restore screen-capture video (5.5 min) with network cable disconnected, performed on 24 December 2017, after accidental shutdown of the same PC, after this PC was 6 days ON with Firefox and its' tabs opened before channel suspension on Dec 18, 2017
https://www.facebook.com/multfilmytv/videos/1640336052693120/
Supplement C.
MultfilmyTV test of Firefox tabs reopening after test session restore,, with network cable disconnected, screen capture video with explanation (5 min 46 sec) to illustrate this is not an offline reader and further test session restore by Firefox, performed on 24 December 2017
https://www.facebook.com/multfilmytv/videos/1640342246025834/
Also please see additional supplements, prepared after our 2nd appeal:
Supplement D.
MultfilmyTV tabs of Mozilla Firefox, with many youtube channel's pages (opened Since Dece 17, 2017) , on another notebook PC that is always on, logged in and ready for routine channel work. Screen capture with an external camera (not true screen capture)
https://www.facebook.com/multfilmytv/videos/1648083298585062/
Supplement E.
Presents MultfilmyTV live stream edit page (opened since December 17, 2017) , on another notebook PC that is always on. Here we tested how Hi-Fi sound of livestream will translate into correct live stream captions, on another notebook PC that is always on, logged in and ready for routine channel work. This video explains that all channels manager's pages are open in different tabs of firefox (one at a time) for a reason - to do 24x7 routine channel development works! This video is screen capture with an external camera (not true screen capture)
https://www.facebook.com/multfilmytv/videos/1648120408581351/
Supplement F.
MultfilmyTV friends at social networks OK.ru and VK.com say kind words of support for MultfilmyTV, describing what out channel at youtube means for them
https://www.facebook.com/multfilmytv/videos/1648185051908220/
Conclusion:
We respect Youtube, its Terms of Service [Ref 3] and
Community
Guidelines! We never broke Youtube rule! We ourselves flag videos when
we see youtube rules are broken by others! We also teach our viewer to
respect youtube rules. What happened is a sad accidental unfortunate
public browser Firefox funtionality, that we carefully analysed, and
will take every measure this does not happen again! We kindly ask you to reinstate our channel!
References:
1. Supported browsers list - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/supported_browsers (last accessed 2017/12/27)
2. Firefox/session restore. Mozilla Wiki https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/session_restore#What_is_Session_Restore.2C_why_this_page.3F (last accessed 2017/12/27)
3. Youtube Terms of Service https://www.youtube.com/t/terms?internalcountrycode=US (last accessed 2017/12/27)
