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As the Federal Aviation Administration cracks down on the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (aka DRONES), you best be careful about not only where you’re flying your drone, but where you’re posting drone videos.

Case in point: A Florida man received a cease-and-desist letter from the FAA over a video he posted flying his drone around. The FAA says that he violated regulations by posting footage shot from his drone, which he claims he was using purely for hobby and not for any commercial use.

Tampa’s Fox 13 reports that the man, Jayson Hanes, received a letter saying that the FAA received a complaint “regarding your use of an unmanned aerial vehicle (aka drone) for commercial purposes referencing your video on the web site Youtube.com as evidence.” After a review, the FAA said that the complaint is valid.

But Hanes didn’t post the video to make any money—nor did he.

“I have never accepted a payment from Google, or YouTube in any shape or form for this. They maybe enabled it to collect page-views, but I’m not getting paid for it,” Hanes told Fox 13. This is not a commercial operation, I’m not selling anything. If anything, it’s YouTube trying to recover costs for hosting the content and making it available on their platform.”

Though the FAA recently proposed new, relaxed rules for commercial drone use, those rules haven’t taken effect yet. Lesson learned: maybe, uh, don’t post your drone videos on YouTube?