If it were some large corporation attempting to maximize its profits by swindling customers, I'd agree. But we're talking about a single creative mind without the backing of hot-shot lawyers and a multi-billion dollar industry. Who knows...it might just have to do with threats of reprisal from his employer. I feel like choice of action really comes down to whether you respect the guy or not; from a professional aspect, I find it difficult not to, especially consider that he has provided free entertainment to the world at the cost of his own free time.
Yes, and that's what many people who don't produce content often find hard to understand.
Once you become a content producer your perspective tends to change a bit, and you really begin to respect people who produce content.
Like many online content producers PhotonicInduction is being quite generous. He doesn't care if you download his stuff and keep it for personal use and archiving, nor does he care if you use parts of his video for compilations or critique etc (with suitable attribution). But he
does care when someone re-uploads his entire video or content. That is not respecting the authors work, or adding to the value of the work and the community, it's just ripping off your work and distributing it in a way that the content owner has no control over. And that is all he is asking, that no one does that.
I've recently had several people rip off my videos and re-upload to youtube, hoping to get hits and monetise it etc. That is not on, and their channels will get shut down for it.
And like PhotonicInduction, I have no problem with people ripping my youtube videos and keeping for personal use and archiving etc. But if you make that content available to the public, or re-upload it etc then that's when we have a problem. And almost every content producer I know feels the same way.
Dave.