Channels & viewing

[Repairfreak]

Randomly when usually watching a Fox News Broadcast on my Roku device, the broadcast is interrupted by an Asian woman crocheting a small object. The original video never resumes and this interruption does not have a count-down timer such as how valid commercials do.

This seems like ILLEGAL HACKING to me!

[AvsGunnar]

@Repairfreak 

This has been going on for quite awhile.  Those Youtube channels are usually just broadcasting an unlicensed stream of Fox (and others).  Then a little box will appear (usually asian or india themed).

It is an attempt to circumvent/confuse the AI copyright checks and fair-use exceptions to the Youtube policies.  (normally these are livestreams and deleted upon completion).

The chinese knitting lady has been around since at least 2021 or so.  When a channel gets closed down, it will reappear under a different one. (three strikes per channel so just rides out the strikes and starts another).  It's not really one person.  It is a bunch of people and they just use the knitting video they downloaded from somewhere.  

Another popular one that used to circulate had a couple of cats in the streamer's box  window.