Comments on: The Heavy Hand of YouTube Censorship Spares No One

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 04:01:26 +0000

My biggest problem with Youtube is when they take down my video and close my account, they don’t give me exact reasons. I don’t know if it’s because I’m using too many tag words or a description that isn’t quite matching the video. Or maybe somebody really did complain. I purchase royalty free music off the internet, and maybe there is a mix-up there. If they would at least be more specific I would comply in any way possible to keep my videos up.

By: trevoratnemo

trevoratnemo — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:54:36 +0000

I have had my family vacation videos pulled down from You Tube and scratch my head and ask when did lawyers become a part of this community? Obviously the creators are long gone. It is too easy and cheap to host my own videos, the fun and novelty of sharing on You Tube is gone.

Here is a question, is there a revenue stream in this for the musicians and artisans? Stock photography sites make it as easy to make a Pay Pal payment to buy usage of photography for commercial advertising. Why couldn’t the artisans set up their payment profile on You Tube, your video is posted, the “Big Brother” filter knows you have copyrighted material in your video and forwards you to the artisans’ Pay Pal account. You pay the license fee or the video comes down. You Tube take a cut similar to Ebay, the artisans make “free” money and everyone is happy!

By: DaveZatz

DaveZatz — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 01:21:59 +0000

YouTube only goes after what they’re told to go after, or so I think. A few of my clips have been targeted. Unfortunately, PR reps from the companies involved gave me permission to run one of them, so I had to go back and forth with them until their legal team figured it out (not YouTube’s, the company who commissioned the filtering/scanning.) Also a subcontractor went after another one of my videos, but instead of a takedown they placed ads on my video. Instead of battling it through the PR teams again, I just left it be. But F all these guys. I’m going to start hosting my own video and they’re going to have to really decide if they want to really hit me with a frivolous copyright or DMCA takedown notice. And of course they won’t have YouTube facilitating their scanning of my uploaded content.

By: David

David — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:16:51 +0000

And that will be the end of Youtube’s reign. Music is part of the Youtube fun, if they’re going to kill it, people will start moving elsewhere. No one is waiting for endless talking heads, music is part of the Youtube experience. It is bad for the music industry as well: I think a lot of people discover music and artists through Youtube, even when tracks are used by dancing kids, or whatever. My suggestion to Youtube would be to force users to credit music in their videos, instead of banning it.

By: SSilver2k2

SSilver2k2 — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:36:07 +0000

or you can just hit listen.grooveshark.com and hit autoplay. you can sitll make a playlsit of your favorite songs, but have it intersplcie related music when the playlist is finished.

By: chad

chad — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:27:56 +0000

I noticed this feature today, not sure when they started doing it but it’s incredibly fail… I use YouTube a lot for music and such at work since they released the playlist functionality. Just search a band and sit back and enjoy the music mishmash that comes up. Thanks to this wonderful feature you’ll get nice 3 minute chunks of silence. I’m currently looking into the player plugin to see if I can find some flags in the flashvars or something that can be toggled via a greasemonkey script to reenable the audio track in the player. They’re just muting the sound object from what I can tell so tricking the player into enabling audio is the trick.

By default the disabled the JSAPI, I’m thinking override that so enable the JSAPI for the player then player.Volume = 100 should do the trick, but I’m at work now, so I’ll find out later tonight I suppose ;)