He DMCA'd all versions of his movie, even the ones which were not monetized. This is not a good argument and won't hold up in court. Simple fact of the matter is, is that he violated his own license.
You're kind of missing the point. He released the film under creative commons license, specifically Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported. The license specifically says;
You are free to: share -- copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.
Which of course includes YouTube. The license cannot be revoked as long as you follow the license, and sharing to YouTube doesn't constitute breaking the license. Which means he's breaking the license.
He's very liable to be sued in this situation and he would absolutely lose.
Sure, you can also do this. But why not make it available to your network in addition to Jellyfin? What if you have a TV that doesn't have access to the Jellyfin app? If it's a private ZFS pool not on the network you're fucked. If you share the media via a network share, you can always do any number of things to stream that media to your TV.
It gives you a ton more options up to and including just watching the media on your PC in your favorite media browser.
TrueNAS is not absolutely required.
It just seems to be the favorite. Anything would work. OMV, EasyNAS, OpenFiler, Rockstor, even just base *nix with the appropriate packages and config.
You'd create a ZFS pool for your shares, then a TrueNAS VM which serves your ZFS pool as NAS. Then setup your Jellyfin VM using your NAS as storage for your libraries. Ends up looking like this: https://x0.at/Gbqm.png
Your media is accessible via the network from any device because they're SMB shares, and it works just fine in Jellyfin. If you only create a ZFS pool for Jellyfin, your media can then only be accessed through Jellyfin. It limits your future options.
You can do a share any number of ways. I simply banked on the fact that anyone willing to ask the question likely doesn't know how to setup SMB shares without a GUI like TrueNAS.
More like, if you sell a gun and follow the law, you're not responsible if the person you sold the gun to murders someone...
They're an ad agency. They sell ad space. If "anti-abortion" people buy ads, that doesn't mean that Google is pushing anti-abortion. How anyone could think like that is frankly the epitome of stupidity.
It's frankly exactly as complicated as his postulated setup, only provides more flexibility. It's the best outcome.
The registration is relatively trivial. You have Chinese youth unable to afford a nice house/apartment and vehicle but the brides parents want $50,000 for them to wed. It's a cultural problem, not a clerical one.
So if you're going through the trouble of setting up proxmox, I would setup the majority of the storage in a ZFS pool for a TrueNAS SMB share/NFS share. Then create a small container just to host jellyfin and jellyfin's cache--maybe commit 10GB of storage to it--really depends on how big your media library is. Mine is about 5TB and cache, metadata, and other misc things take up about 8GB.
Setting up your share is enough for jellyfin. Since the media and jellyfin are stored on the same metal, additional latency will be sub 100ms. Create a library in Jellyfin and set it to the share; Movies: \\nas\Movies, TV: \\nas\TV, etc.
Works flawlessly and would have more utility than allocating the entirety of your storage to your jellyfin container because it functions as a normal NAS. I've been running with a setup like this for a while and it works great.
He's hoping everyone else doesn't liquidate before he can. lol He's trying to leave everyone else holding the bag.
Violation of his own Creative Commons license. It's a tenable contract in the United States--a contract between him and viewers, creators, and frankly anyone.