 Welcome back to the channel guys. Today's video is going to be a little bit different for two reasons. One reason I'm recording this at home. So obviously I don't have my studio set up So a little different equipment. So I do apologize that you know the video and maybe the audio are not quite up to par But that's just what I'm working with here at the house because I didn't want to drive to the studio to go Make a proper video on this topic. This was something I felt compelled to make while I was sitting here at home And the other reason this is going to be a little bit different kind of video is not just because the location I'm recording you and it's because of the topic I normally don't like making videos where I Criticize or try to throw shade on another content creator. That's typically not the kind of content I do it's for one thing. It's not me personally as far as I don't care what people do in life with their Their own channels with whatever the opinions they have, you know, you do your thing I do my thing, but I do think I have a responsibility as a Linux content creator that when I see somebody out there that I think could be harmful Potentially harmful. I need to call this out. So you guys are better informed about what's going on So there is a rather popular Linux content creator on YouTube and over on Odyssey The channel name is ebus central. Most of his content is Linux installation Distro reviews things like that. I don't watch much of his content because that's not the kind of content I typically watch. He also does some more educational stuff Like top five list top 10 list and things like that But what I wanted to talk to you today was some questionable decisions He's ebus central has been making here recently because there are two other Linux content creators that I came across some of their content recently Linux tube so the Linux tube is a smaller content creator He puts out some good videos go subscribe to the Linux tube and his community tab He posted this a couple of days ago this link to this video called ebus to by this content creator Then I'm not familiar with a dragon ball jujitsu. He's not a Linux content creator It's really not a content creator at all. He's only got three videos on his channel But he felt compelled he needed to do this video about ebus central where he plays one of ebus central's videos next to an article from zd net this article here Written by jack wall and eight things you can do with Linux that you can't do with mac os or windows And the video from ebus central was actually titled Things Linux can do windows and mac os can't change the title But essentially if you play the video With the exception of a few personal items like jack wall and in the first sentence states that he's been using Linux since 1997 ebus central changes that to I think 2005 or whatever year he started using Linux But essentially the video is him reading this article exactly word for word And then you know he puts an intro his intro at the beginning of the video his outro at the end of the video So it's basically Pledgerizing right instead of scripting a video himself He's just going and grabbing somebody else's work and then making a video out of it. That's kind of a problem Matter of fact It's enough of a problem that i'm assuming that jack wall and and the good folks over at zd net already know about it Because on ebus central's youtube channel That video was posted two days ago. It's not here anymore It should be this video here, but it's not right So they've already I guess taken it down or maybe ebus himself Decided to take it down up because he knew he would probably get in trouble for that video So that is very questionable But you know, I can let one Slip up happen right everybody makes mistakes Maybe he just wasn't thinking that day or or maybe he was just too lazy to write a script But another linux youtuber i'm subscribed to dark one linux tech and gaming So matt over at dark one linux. I've shouted out matt before on some videos in the past I remember about three or four years ago I highlighted some small linux youtubers that you guys should check out and he was one of them Matt's a good guy, but he did this video a reaction video He did a reaction to eight things you should never do after installing linux And this video of course is a reaction to an ebus central video. So that's the title of ebus central His video eight things you should never do after installing linux and I started watching this And I couldn't help but be reminded of an article that I had recently come across because being a linux content creator I scour the internet for linux related articles and blogs and news postings and Over at make use of com eight things you should never do after installing linux and What do you know? All eight things or what he mentions on the video. He basically reads it word for word He even includes some of the images like this image in his video But he doesn't actually show the make use of com page or give credit to the person that actually wrote the article Or anything. It's kind of weird. All right. This is a little weird So he plagiarized that as well this video by the way is still up over on odyssey if I go to his Content tab here and I go back to this video right here It was posted 20 days ago eight things you should never do after installing linux You guys can go watch that on odyssey But you can't watch that one here on youtube because it doesn't appear Be on youtube anymore because let me make sure I haven't missed it never yeah I think I would see that thumbnail pretty distinct thumbnail So he's for he's either removed both of those videos or both of those videos have been reported and Or striped for some reason taken down by youtube because youtube takes Especially copyright claims and things like that very serious and obviously these article authors They would have a serious problem somebody just plagiarizing their work not giving them any kind of credit for it And you're basically ripping off their work so you can profit You know by basically making a video on essentially Their script for your video instead of just coming up with your own unique script and again I don't want to necessarily go out of my way to pick on people in the linux community to Call them out for any kind of shenanigans But I do think this is a big enough problem I needed to the other reason I needed to do this is because people have been kind of Telling me some strange things about this ebus central channel for a while People often will tell me that they've had bad interactions with the guy on the channel I often talk to distro maintainers right and one of the things with ebus central He sells a lot of merchandise his own merchandise Based off of the names and logos of various linux distributions and some of those distributions Have had problems with him doing that in the past and that they've had problems with Working out some kind of deal where he could use you know their artwork their logo and maybe you know He would you know do something in return You know give them an ad spot or something on a video or whatnot But I do know people have had problems with that as far as distro maintainers with ebus central in the past And I've had people I remember a few months back I had a lot of people I didn't really care But people were saying that ebus central was basically trying to mimic the look and feel of my thumbnails If you go to my youtube channel, you guys know the the color scheme I typically use for the titles and all of my thumbnails and I do that for branding purposes because Being a rather popular channel. I want my thumbnails to be immediately recognizable So people know hey, that's dt's color scheme That's going to be one of dt's videos and you know ebus central He's been playing around with some different thumbnail styles But if I scroll back a ways, you know, this was his old thumbnail style But then all of a sudden he switched to using purple and white And it kind of you know, it's a slightly different shade of purple than the one I'm using mine's more It's got a more reddish pinkish hue his is more toward the the blue end of the spectrum But you know, like I said, that's I I thought that was probably just coincidence It was no big deal But you know things start to add up when you see somebody Pledgerizing other people's work Blatantly plagiarizing. He's obviously had some videos taken down. That's a serious issue That's a very serious issue and I just want you guys That consume his content, you know, if he is able to Basically put out these Articles like these eight things you can do, you know that Linux can do that windows and mac can't And some of that was like opinionated stuff that the author of the article had But he's reciting it like those are his opinions The same thing with the eight things you should never do after installing Linux You know, some of that was personal anecdotes from the author as far as him working in like the it field and stuff like that And you are you gonna read that word for word and pass that on as if that's your own experience? I think that's very disingenuous. I actually very dishonest now Should you be consuming content from ebus central? Should you stop watching his videos? I'm not going to get into any of that because ultimately we all make our own decisions I'm gonna let you decide to do in that regard. I never like to tell people what to do But I did I found some of this stuff really concerning especially the pleasurism I wanted to put that out there publicly So people knew about it that way you have more information available And you can actually make a better informed decision in this regard peace guys