[HN Gopher] Patreon dumps vids on Vimeo, passes fees through to ...
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       Patreon dumps vids on Vimeo, passes fees through to unsuspecting
       users
        
       It seems that unbeknownst to most of its users, since Patreon has
       allowed creators to post videos they have been dumping those videos
       on 'pro' level Vimeo accounts rather than hosting the content
       themselves (as any self-respecting publisher would do).  When Vimeo
       came calling to look for the payment for excess bandwidth that
       particularly popular creators used, Patreon just passed the invoice
       right on through to the content creators, some of whom have been
       notified that they have a week to pay Vimeo thousands of dollars or
       have all of their content deleted.
       https://twitter.com/hate5six/status/1481500463317012482?s=21
       https://www.patreon.com/posts/vimeo-is-holding-61514364
        
       Author : RNCTX
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2022-01-29 21:00 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
       | detaro wrote:
       | Your first link has nothing to do with Patreon.
       | 
       | The second one also doesn't support the "unbeknownst to most of
       | its users", given that they got a vimeo subscription so they
       | could use the feature to upload to Vimeo through Patreon.
       | Patreons documentation is quite clear on that, and you can't use
       | it without setting up and linking a Vimeo account... It's not
       | really surprising Patreon isn't footing the bill for a "upload
       | your videos to vimeo" feature.
       | 
       | So this seems to be basically entirely on Vimeo, except for
       | Patreon not offering their own video solution.
        
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