They got their video taken down over a copyright strike, link to post on YT
Here’s a mirror on internet archive.
I’m sure this takedown will in no way bring attention to this video.
I’d buy this on a bluray.
Is there a tldw somewhere before I watch 3.5 hours?
TL;DW:
US banned sales of a certain class of high performance graphic cards to China.
It is actually possible to purchase those cards in China. And it is not very hard to do so.
The prices of said cards in China are quite similar to the ones in the US.
A lot of big players in the market are not happy with the truth presented in this piece by Gamers Nexus.
edit: grammar.
Personal opinion: In this video, there is a demonstration of how a card can have the VRAM enhanced(48GB) and a GPU moved from a PCB to another PCB.
The manufacturers say that VRAM is expensive. I do not think that! Sustainability is possible if it is wanted.
Yeah that’s a lot of time for something I have no idea about.
I found it fascinating beyond just the geopolitics of video cards (although the existence of that right there is wild).
It’s a really neat look inside China with “real people” (not trade shows, uptight salesmen, or politicians). I don’t speak Chinese but it also seemed like Steve Burke had spent a lot of effort learning. He seems very talented and smart while staying humble. That’s rare.
Despite it being a 3 hour video about smuggling, the most discomforting thing for me was the left-handed driving in HK and I find that hilarious.
Downloading the torrent so i can seed it on 2.5Gb fiber
seeding on my seedbox, for the people!
After all the shit with LTT do they think GN is gonna go quietly?
Thanks for the heads-up, added the internet archive torrent to seed up to 25MB/s
I started ripping it in Youtube the night it was released! knew this BS would happen.
I’m dowloading a backup and will be seeding it. 😄
Also added to my seedbox
iirc theyre active on reddit talking about the situation. basically bloomberg lawyers probably striked it for a segment they included in the video, but GN thinks theyre fine because itll be covered by fair use. Basically nothing to do with the parties involved in the topics of the video.
I found the intro hook intriguing, but the reporting starts with a lot of media clips and other run-ups, which eventually made me leave.
It’s great they put in so much effort into genuine, on-site reporting, but the already long video report feels even more bloated/filled this way.
I have to wonder if the DMCA was due to the news clips. While they may be fair use for contextualized reporting, I didn’t find them particularly valuable, and DMCA issues could have been avoided without them or without using so many of them.
Exactly the same - I was very interested in the premise but struggled to make it past this section, too, for the same reasons you’ve mentioned. Would certainly agree that these clips should’ve been used more sparingly, as it’s a bit of a slog otherwise.
I have to wonder if the DMCA was due to the news clips. While they may be fair use for contextualized reporting, I didn’t find them particularly valuable, and DMCA issues could have been avoided without them or without using so many of them.
They have said that Bloomburg footage of trump talking about GPUs was the claim. They probably did play a little too fast and loose with copyrighted footage.
Why the 1.1gb video hosted in the internet archive has a “.ai” in its name?
It has .ia in the file name because it was processed with the Internet Archive’s MP4 tool which optimises the file for streaming by moving some content in the file around. Very common for Internet Archive files and nothing to do with AI.
Why does it matter?
Curiosity matters.
I had to close the GN vid after he said Russia is allegedly using AI to surveil their citizens.
Like yeah Steve. Conveniently never mention the genocide being committed using AI in the most dystopian way possible. Or anything regarding Israel ever, such as NVIDIA building a multi billion dollar tech campus in Israel right now.
I’m as against Israel’s war crimes as the next guy, but I don’t see why some people try to shoehorn it into completely irrelevant topics.
The video is about GPUs being smuggled into China, as well as the futility of this GPU export ban.
It is not about middle eastern geopolitics. That’s why middle eastern geopolitics wasn’t mentioned.
So why did it mention Russia allegedly using AI to spy on its citizens?
Because USA has similar restrictions on Russia for these powerful GPUs. Because Russia is just over the boarder from China. Because its another example. Just because Steve gave us a few examples, of countries using ai tech, dosent mean we need an exhaustive list of every example in the world.
It sure is convenient Steve only ever brings up Russia and never Israel. That is not weird whatsoever. Ignoring the Holocaust elephant in the room.
Are you genuinely going to nitpick a video focusing on the black market for gpus… about not calling out your specific concern? My dude - I’d advise you to find perspective that isn’t up your own ass.
Yes. It was a hillarious double standard showcasing how biased the reporter is and unwilling to speak the truth. There is nothing to learn from such bad journalism.
Avoiding talking the about Israel while bringing up Western preferred lines is the most suspicious thing a “journalist” can do.
… opposed to the journalist speaking about a topic they set out to cover without derailing things … and still producing in excess of 3 hours of distilled content. You are exactly what is wrong with the current social media. There are thousands of topics speaking directly about the subject you are concerned with. Go partake in those. You aren’t shedding light on something - you are virtue signalling. You aren’t being a good steward - you are being a disruptive cunt.
GamersNexus chose to derail things. With rumors about Russia instead of mentioning Israel committing a literal genocide with AI. And they purposely avoid talking about Israel in every single of their videos.
They choose to make their videos political and make political statements. But the hypocrisy on this is too glaring.
You’re free to make your own video without what you feel is an egregious oversight.
