Now playing: Robert Folk - Ace In Africa
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There goes the next few days, Hulu just re-posted Season 1 of Lost. My thinking: "Everyone I know raves about this, I guess I'll just start with...the......pilot......"
::HOURS LATER::
"CURSE YOU J.J. ABRAMS! WHY DO YOU HAVE TO BE SO ENTERTAINING?"
Enough, More Later.
- James
Sunday, August 09, 2009
Sunday, August 02, 2009
So Much for That
Now playing: Klint - Diamond
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Well, it's finally happened. I transgressed the "no copyrighted material" rule on YouTube one too many times and had my channel taken down.
For the most part, I knew this was going to happen. Sooner or later a company was going to stumble on a clip or two that they didn't want up and exercise their ownership rights to have it taken down, and that would be the last straw for YouTube (just how many transgressions are never explicitly stated). I understand that, and can live with it.
However, the lack of consistency between different company's policies is part of what led to the creation of my channel to begin with. Some companies don't mind that the clips exist, and simply have them blocked in certain countries. Most of the time that country is "the USA," which spelled trouble for most of my subscribers, but I did have a handful of international folk who found my clips useful, as access to the movies in question were limited in their locale.
More importantly, some companies didn't seem to care at all. Very, very often I'd find not only unaltered clips, but entire movies posted to YouTube (separated into 10 minute chunks, as per usual for free accounts. How one goes about getting a paid account is still something shrouded in mystery to the layman). My usual check to see if a company cared or didn't care was to do a search for any pre-existing material. If all I found were the occasional amateur music video and trailers, it was usually a bad sign for posting clips of the movie in question.
And I didn't even mind if one of my postings was swiftly taken down. I can appreciate a company keeping a tight lid on its property, as long as it's swift and efficiant. What I really didn't like was posting a clip and then months (or years!) later suddenly getting a notice of removal by so-and-so inc.
The last straw to break YouTube's back happened to be a clip from Tartakovsky's Clone Wars, something I've had up for ages now. That it had become a very popular clip, garnering well over 10,000 views (a minor victory for a backwater channel like mine), no doubt led to it's getting noticed. However, given that some of my most popular clips have racked up over 30,000 views and remained un-deleted (and being from noticable films!), I can't help but feel a little off-put by the disapora of mind-sets when it comes to claiming copyrights.
And so, though I'm not entirely surprised by the disbarring of my account, I'm still a little bitter about the lack of consistancy when it comes to the disposal of content-IDing.
Enough, More Later.
- James
via FoxyTunes
Well, it's finally happened. I transgressed the "no copyrighted material" rule on YouTube one too many times and had my channel taken down.
For the most part, I knew this was going to happen. Sooner or later a company was going to stumble on a clip or two that they didn't want up and exercise their ownership rights to have it taken down, and that would be the last straw for YouTube (just how many transgressions are never explicitly stated). I understand that, and can live with it.
However, the lack of consistency between different company's policies is part of what led to the creation of my channel to begin with. Some companies don't mind that the clips exist, and simply have them blocked in certain countries. Most of the time that country is "the USA," which spelled trouble for most of my subscribers, but I did have a handful of international folk who found my clips useful, as access to the movies in question were limited in their locale.
More importantly, some companies didn't seem to care at all. Very, very often I'd find not only unaltered clips, but entire movies posted to YouTube (separated into 10 minute chunks, as per usual for free accounts. How one goes about getting a paid account is still something shrouded in mystery to the layman). My usual check to see if a company cared or didn't care was to do a search for any pre-existing material. If all I found were the occasional amateur music video and trailers, it was usually a bad sign for posting clips of the movie in question.
And I didn't even mind if one of my postings was swiftly taken down. I can appreciate a company keeping a tight lid on its property, as long as it's swift and efficiant. What I really didn't like was posting a clip and then months (or years!) later suddenly getting a notice of removal by so-and-so inc.
The last straw to break YouTube's back happened to be a clip from Tartakovsky's Clone Wars, something I've had up for ages now. That it had become a very popular clip, garnering well over 10,000 views (a minor victory for a backwater channel like mine), no doubt led to it's getting noticed. However, given that some of my most popular clips have racked up over 30,000 views and remained un-deleted (and being from noticable films!), I can't help but feel a little off-put by the disapora of mind-sets when it comes to claiming copyrights.
And so, though I'm not entirely surprised by the disbarring of my account, I'm still a little bitter about the lack of consistancy when it comes to the disposal of content-IDing.
Enough, More Later.
- James
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