[sedgewick1]

Today I uploaded a stream capture from one of the Coachella livestreams, and it was pulled because no YouTube-sourced material is allowed. Can we re-evaluate that rule for livestreams? I think it doesn't make sense in this case - the YouTube livestream was the only way in which this content was broadcast, and I captured at the maximum available quality and cut out the set without re-encoding the video. That's as good as it's possible to be; we're not likely to ever get pro-shot videos from recent Coachellas without Youtube in the lineage, so this rule is excluding a lot of good content.

I think a rule against Youtube-sourced content makes perfect sense as a special case of a rule against unnecessary re-encoding of videos. This is how DIME handles it, for example - Coachella livestream captures are allowed there, but the ones that were reencoded after capture were quickly banned. Believe me, I don't want unnecessary Youtube compression in my collection any more than anyone else does. But I don't think that applies to captures of content that was originally and only made available via YouTube.