Google took down one of my videos due to an audio copy write violation. I wrote the song and recorded all the music myself :/ I filed a claim and it got rejected. I re-uploaded it the next day and never heard anything since. F'ing idiots...

I had a video uploading before I even saw that the strike was removed. I've never wanted to invest in KZfaq as a career or anything close to a major revenue stream. This kinda reaffirms that. I was thinking about whether it would be a good or bad idea to divest some time from business to KZfaq, but hell no.

It's not just you sir. There are some VERY serious problems going on about KZfaq that nobody talks about. Basically the big channels keep quiet as long as they making good money. The small channels are too small to matter to KZfaq. You are almost big enough to matter to KZfaq but your channel is still small by KZfaq standards. The big channels are all in the millions of subs level. PewDiePie is over 30 million subs. Small up and coming channels like Casey Niestat are at 1.5 million. KZfaq is MASSIVE, so you need to have a MASSIVE voice to be heard. Also, just to let you know just HOW bad it is. I got a strike on copyright for using music that KZfaq said I could. I proved my case by sending screen shots of the site saying I could. They did even update that part of the site right away but it is corrected now. Meanwhile, I've been in your shoes for 3+ MONTHS now. I'm working with a partner manager and who has gotten me anything. I contacted support and they reply like they are a Philippines team following a script or worst a AI computer PROGRAM!! I even spoke to my producer at KZfaq Space and nothing. My channel was CLEAN record. There are many channels close to your size and bigger that are now defunct due to KZfaq nonsense and nobody seems to care. You can spend a decade on KZfaq and they will still delete you in a second with no warning or good explanation.

Dude, I just got a community guidelines strike my thumbnail which was about kissing and touching -- the new trend on youtube.... and the thumbnail was of two people kissing. I can't stream anymore :/

How realistic would it be to create a decentralized video sharing platform? It would essentially work in the same spirit as Openbazaar, only instead of a decentralized Amazon/ebay-like marketplace it would be kinda like KZfaq but primarily serve as an extra layer of security. In the event something happens to your channel you'd still be able to connect with anybody subscribed to your decentralized network behind the scenes.

I just uploaded a video of 4 big youtuber's channels being taken down WTF!!! So many youtubers being randomly striked and terminated, is like youtube is desperate for people to leave them

I'm sorry man, that really sucks. KZfaq really needs to do better when it comes to these community strikes. I had one for some "hacking videos" that I did years ago. It is annoying.

That sucks, dude. I'm going to watch your update videos now, but even knowing that this happened has to be frustrating.

Hey Eli, you should consider looking at a format where you can stream your podcasts LIVE also. That way, perhaps you can start an IRC channel, with embedded webchat on your site(KiwiIRC for example), where you can get live feedback during your broadcast. It's just an idea. Maybe it's one you've already thought about, and ruled out, but I just thought I would throw it out there. Good luck.

NOOOO!!! I LEARNED SO MUCH FROM YOU! You are what got me to where i am today...

Eli, I love your content and have been subscribed to your channel for at least a year or more. This video appeared in my feed and I had not seen it before. Fast forward 4 years and you are still going strong, making unquestionably valuable content. Did KZfaq finally help you or did you just wait 6 months? Just a curious subscriber. As an IT professional, I am forever grateful to your excellent instruction. I have implemented several of your shared projects and have applied what I have learned from you.Thank you Sir!

Eli, out the full length vids on another service and upload the sample to youtube. at the end of the sample it says click the link for full length. start bringing KZfaq's customers to another service.

You aren't the only one in the new year, several youtubers about your size has had issues with monetization, strikes and video removal.

It's bureaucracy at its finest Eli. Unfortunately nowadays you can't run from it. It's been nice to be subscribed to your channel, thank you for the uploads. The information you gave to the community was invaluable.

Well this is a bummer, I stumbled on your old videos and was really jazzed... from 2010 and now to see it's come to this. Well I subscribed and I hope you can get this worked out. You have a great channel and I support you.

If it were me I'd delete all of my content, and close my account. Two can play the my bat, my ball game.

What the fuck KZfaq!! I literally subscribed a few days ago because I loved how technical he was and not just like idk Linus (I know this is different but just fallow along with me) where he basically just shows you hardware and some test. Eli goes in-depth about everything on a way that makes sense while relating it back to something useful. KZfaq has enough money to pay for a relationship between KZfaqrs and KZfaq and not just say ha you fucked up here is your strike by a email. >$50,000 a year would be enough to get a courtesy call at least or a person. I get that is all about money, but it will be benefit KZfaq too. Eli have you thought of Vessel?

lol youtube is in the early stages off death, its pissing off a lot of creators latly so its only a matter off time till everyone goes over to daily motion

Eli, I just saw this video trending again in 2020. I'm so glad your still on KZfaq. Now you have over one million subs, its still working pretty good for you.

Well that sucks! I just found you and subscribed yesterday! I guess it's off to sound-cloud I go. They'll eventually realize they've chased off all the decent creators but by then it'll be too late. Sorry man.

This dude is acting like he's not freaking out over losing basically his job, but you can tell he is. SAD!

Love your videos Eli, sucks that this happened. Good luck Eli for the future.

Eli, love your video's and straight talking way of explaining things, I too got burned by KZfaq, I was a KZfaq partner, I built up a channel to 700 + subscribers and was earning about $100 dollars a month until they changed their policy so that you needed 1000 subscribers and 4000 hours of watch time before you could make a cent from add revenue. So in essence, they basically kicked me off the partner program. It really sickened me so now I don't bother uploading videos anymore, I know I'm talking small numbers but It could have been something a lot bigger but I wouldn't dedicate any more time to it not knowing what KZfaq might do next. I feel your pain.

Eli, I'm sorry this happened. I just wanted to say I've personally used that HTML inspect element trick MANY times for my customers who have forgotten their passwords but had them saved in some website that they forgot about as well. Hardly hacking, rather an essential tech trick!

damn. i found your stuff really helpful. i hope you don't leave

I am upset that KZfaq is treating Eli like this but I have been telling Eli to do a podcast for years.

Sorry to see you go. But you gotta do whats best for you man. Best of luck to you.

Sorry about the situation with youtube. I was really looking forward to a C++ class from you. I also had some questions befor I start my career path in gamming

Do Patreon! KZfaq is going to be completely dead and a corporate cesspool filled with mainly high budget garbage in the next 3 years and then a year after that, it'll be dead and just fade away just like Myspace

do you have backups of the old videos? It would be terrible if they are lost.

Brother.... Am so sorry that this happened. Your content is so so so super amazing that it gives insights into why certain things are done a certain way. A simple example would be, i really a hatted unix, but then once you introduced the concept that unix is running on all major servers and the server version of each distributions, I got a hell a lot more excited to learn unix and your content all allowed me to pursue getting better at it. Its sad what happened, but hope you are doing well these days..

Really sorry for what has happened to you. I find your channel very interesting and informative. I came to look at a recent tutorial that I watched from you to try it out on my computer about ftp and ssh. Man I'm really bummed that you're not gonna do no more classes. I hope the best for you and I hope things will turn out better. Is there any way we can help in the matter to get you back for more than 15 minutes. I haven't read all comments yet so I apologize if the answer is already out there, but I wanted to speak my mind. Thank you very much for your time and effort on this channel.

KZfaq has sucked ass since Google bought it.. hate to see you go, I've picked up some great tips from your vids.

Eli the 15 Minute Computer Guy

That is a very strange decision from KZfaq. Hopefully things get resolved quickly. You're video tutorials are excellent.

All good things do tend to come to and end, I for one will miss your videos, and am very grateful for what you have taught me. Obviously not including the "how to hack an html password field" bit, but everything else. Good luck on soundclound and in the future!

tl;dw: - Read the video description for the meat of it. - 14 minutes of rambling filler.

Ridiculous KZfaq policy and carelessness !

I remember trying what you showed in that video to see if it works. And it did. I'm surprised that KZfaq isn't showing you any loyalty and treating someone with so many subscribers any better. I guess you can do videos like Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 etc.

Hey Eli, this totally sucks. I watched one of your IT videos a couple of months ago, and it was interesting and informative. Good luck!

I was pissed at youtube ever since they took porn down

You should do more of this "Leaving KZfaq." videos, if you know what i mean hahahaa.

That sucks Eli. Love your content. Hope KZfaq realizes their mistake and makes things right.

I am kinda glad you are going through this stuff with KZfaq because you are a very creative guy with a pretty good following. It is cool that you are able to send your followers to other platforms, maybe inspire them to create better platforms than KZfaq. KZfaq needs the competition; this video has inspired me to look else where for video content. There are channels on here that practice their freedom of speak very well, but you show NO violations with a dumb hacking video.... them clamping you like that boggles me. These companies are trying to corner these industries while clamping our creativity to make a extra buck.

can your audience appeal this crappy judgement??

Im just curious how do you have 600k subscribers but all your videos in the past year only get like an average of maybe 15k views? Are most of your subs bots or somthing?

All my support, dude. As an IT professional, I understand your rage. You don't deserve this.

That completely sucks!!! I really appreciate all that you have shared and taught over the years. I count myself blessed to have had the opportunity to learn what I have from you this far. I wish you and your wife well. And, Godspeed on your future endeavors. HOOAH!!!

This is such Bullshit i love this guy

KZfaq should invest in creating a department, a call center even, to handle situations like this. You can't automate everything. As stated... who wants to put so much time and effort into something, only for it to disappear in a snap of a finger due to lack of communication? It's bs.

This is stupid too, I for one loved that video. Thanks to browsers auto-saving and auto-filling passwords, I forget them sometimes, as do other people. That video saved me and other people I know from getting lost passwords. You are a computer hero

Bummer, sorry to hear how to KZfaq is treating you. Good luck on your other venues.

Thanks YT. You've ruined another awesome channel for NO REASON. YT is going down the Tube, the bigger it gets.

FUCK KZfaq! Seriously..

That sucks so damn much, don't you have a 'handler' at KZfaq that you can contact directly about this? you could also do multi-part videos to get around the 15min restriction, hopefully you can get this all figured out!

sound cloud shall be then, all my support to Eli from Chile, been following him for a while 4 years now, tell anybody i know in tech world to listen to you. what about the classic everymanit website? It is time for you to go on your own Eli, something yours, something better, with no restrictions. I know you are going to get something good out of this. Love you man.

what the! booooo youtube

WTF?!

This is ridiculous. Eli thank you so much for your videos thus far, and I'm sorry you've had to deal with this bull. Just as a note, I would be interested in long form videos still if hosted on Vimeo or something similar. I'm sure my coworkers who watch your videos for education at work feel the same.

I've heard quite a bit of the leaving youtube talk over the past couple years. A lot of the channels I follow have also started uploading on other video sites as well, just to be ready if this day came for them.

This news is really disappointing, but over these 7 years you have proved yourself a very resourceful person. I wish you all the best with your future pursuits, and I'll keep an eye out for your content. Thanks Eli!

eli man...I'm in the process of creating a web design agency...won't get into the detail but it's pretty cool shtuff. Just wanted to say you helped out a ton with your videos. Thanks a ton for that!!!! And screw youtube...those who watch your stuff will find you wherever haha. Either way cheers...you're awesome. KZfaq's been on the decline for a while so don't give them too much importance.

Even though this is an older video, it's well spoken & well defined, thumbs up.

This is sad news. I've learned so much thanks to this channel. Specially your play list about networking. KZfaq must show a bit of respect to its valuable content creators and handle these issues in a flexible manner. They are not doing anyone any good by bringing down good quality creators like you.

I'm sorry man, It sucks that youtube works that way. I follow your videos because they bring a lot of content and I learned a lot from them. I hope everything gets back in place buddy.

Wow. This sucks. I've learned so much from your channel and I will continue to watch on whatever platform you choose to release content.

Sorry to hear this. You put in much to much time do get screwed. You have all right on your side and have all the right to be much more pissed than you show. I have had IT professors recommend your videos over their own lectures (most recently Windows Server 2012 Introduction directly linked from our Blackboard site.) You really deserve better.

Sorry to hear this, Eli. Your videos have really helped me out learning the basics. I wish you well with whatever you move onto :(

Keep fighting the fight. I certainly hope that you continue to share your expertise. You have made a difference in other peoples lives and bettered the world for it. You'll always have that, regardless of KZfaq. Thanks Eli for helping me in my knowledge and career goals. Also, the 15min time allotment may be a great opportunity to challenge your editing abilities and add to your style. Break up the content into concise segments with chapters and visual aids for example. Think micro and macro, bits and bytes, smaller ideas to larger concepts and do it with content length- for the time being.

Great idea to move to soundcloud. Sucks what happened with youtube and I wish you would stay. But its great to hear you aren't dumping this all completely and just moving over to soundcloud. I wish you the best of luck for the future Eli :) Followed you on soundcloud too!

My support to you Eli. Like many others I watched dozens of your videos. I find your in depth content unique for the youtube.

Man, I feel your pain and frustration, Eli! Have enjoyed your videos for years now and will continue to follow you on soundcloud. KZfaq - get your act together!

I'm sorry this happened to you man. I'm already following you on soundcloud, can't wait to listen more of your podcasts :)

Aw man, I just heard about this from Reddit. So sorry to hear about this. It sucks.

This is so sad. I have been watching your videos a few times over the years. And you are one of the persons who have helped me the most to knowing what I know about technology today. You have shared a lot with us, and I kind of feel like KZfaq has a problem with that. They are probably trying to limit what we learn in here.

Ah damn! I just randomly found a video of yours, liked it and thought 'I like this guy! I'll check out his channel!' And see this :( sorry to hear this, I don't think there has been a day go by in the last week where I haven't heard about some shit like this that KZfaq is pulling. Fight the power man!

Dude, you are awesome. You taught me so much about computers, servers, and etc. Whatever KZfaq says, or people who don't have anything better than flagging you, I sincerely thank you for your works and efforts to teach us all about technology. I can see all your audience as it can be seen (by the mins watched and your over 687k subs)! Although, if you were to ask me, that would be like the last video of yours I would think would be taken down. I watched it recently though, and it is back. They maybe thought over this again, because I see that video, and just watched it a few mins ago. Anyway, I hope your videos stay up and help others in the future as they helped me and your current audience.

Too bad. I first ran across you a couple of years ago when I was studying for my net + certification. Other people in my class watched your vids too. But I understand and you gotta do what you gotta do. Thanks for the help by the way. Your lesson on subnet masking was a break through for me. I know about you other websites so I will be checking that out.

I'm sorry you've gotten the shaft by youtube. This seems to a common theme lately. A large portion of the youtubers I watch have been screwed by youtube recently

Less than a year after posting this vid, you have over 100,000+ additional subscribers. I think you're doing pretty darn good. I've always loved your vids. You break things down into a completely understandable format, no matter the subject. I appreciate everything you do.

Your videos helped me build and configure our work severs, from all of the comments I've seen before I'm not alone! Look forward to seeing your content on another platform!

the writing on the wall moment i think was when he went to the KZfaq meeting at CES and saw the evil execs of KZfaq, then this happened... well you will still go far!

Eli, I am sorry to hear the struggle. Can you fight back and make playlists of 15mn chunks?

Sorry to hear - you've been a great help to me over the years. ^Bill

Someone needs to do something to fight this. Maybe come up with something that directly competes with KZfaq (even to the point of attack ads) and you as well as other channels that have dealt with this need to join together and you need to bring this up to the EFF.

I didn't really watch your videos, but I still feel very sad and frustrated for you. Hope things work out for you in your life!

This is really sad, your expertise will be missed. Thank you for all your time committed to explaining stuff !!

I feel for ya! That sucks. Maybe it is an oversight and one of your subscribers will get it worked out for you. We'll hope.

Eli, your videos taught me a ton and helped to launch me into a new career path. I really appreciate your work. It's a damn shame that KZfaq is treating you unfairly. Good luck in your endeavors. Whatever you do will be successful I'm sure!

If anything that video is highlighting to developers -" how better to protect their sites from vulnerabilities" - PS. love your videos

So sorry to hear, love you and your videos! Good luck in future endeavors!

Dude, I've been watching you for years. First saw your vids in my Electronics Engineering Classes in college back in 2011 or so. Hate that you're going through this stuff.

That is so messed up in the extream I love your tutorial videos that have been so very informative for my degree. I'm working on my Bachelors in Cyber Security in Computer Security Systems. So I hope you're able find a site where you can post your video content without any hassles .

Man, I have 2 more credit until I get my degree and its because of your videos. Many late nights watching you explain concepts that I just could not grasp in class. Good Luck!!

I'm so sorry you're going through all this. The upside is you're going to be diversifying your business & content across other platforms. THAT can only be a good thing for you (and us, because I'm sure you'll share your journey =) I remember watching that 'Hacking' video. It was nothing! Sheesh! Thanks for spelling out what happened. We've all learned a lesson.... at your expense. It reminds me of the Despair.com Mistakes, "It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others." Ha ha ha!

This is a real shame and unfortunately a sign of the times. I appreciate your honesty and I wish you all the best in your future endeavours.

that really sucks about KZfaq..... i hope u get back soon... i love your teachings

I'm sorry to hear this Eli, you were an inspiration to me and you have taut me so much in the videos and I will follow you on soundcloud, but i agree 100% with you that youtube need to pull their heads out of their asses because this is pathetic

You are the best Eli I wish I could speak out in your favor you have helped us a lot throughout these several years if I meet anyone who works in KZfaq I ll definitely mention your situation ...

Hey Eli, when I was bored my freshmen year of high school I watched you introduction to networking video which sparked my interest in anything IT. Since then I kept pursuing more knowledge in IT/Tech, got several certifications, and am in my second year of college studying computer science. Thanks for introducing me to the tech world in a concise and entertaining way. Best of luck on your future endeavors.