Youtube now officially sucks

[Downtown Hound]

They are removing any video that has graphic images of the Iraq War. Bastards. I knew this would happen when they got bought out, but still, it's a sad day.

[Reverend_Smitty]

1. Youtube has been taking a bunch of stuff down lately

Just last night I had to remove 10 channels from my favorites list because their accounts have been suspended

[Boogie]

2. Sounds like they are creating a huge gap for a secondary market.

This would be a great opportunity for somebody to create an alternative to Youtube.

[Downtown Hound]

3. I was just thinking the same thing

And lo and behold, I'm currently in the process of getting my IT degree. I might just take a shot at this in a few months.

[Omphaloskepsis]

7. This link can help you get started.

http://blog.kovyrin.net/2006/10/08/lighttpd-memcoder-flvtool-for-streaming/


That handles the hard part.

[Downtown Hound]

10. Thanks! That does help,

but the hardest part is actually the legal end of it. Prior to getting bought out by Google, the kids that owned youtube were embroiled in countless lawsuits. I think that had a lot to do with why they sold it. Oh yeah, the $1 billion dollar price tag probably didn't hurt either. But I'm getting my IT degree from a technology/business/legal trade school, so maybe I can enlist the help of some folks in the legal department. I can handle the tech stuff, it's the legal stuff that scares me.

[sce56]

5. How about a DU-TUBE?

I could throw out a little scratch for seed money how many others here would want to get in the ground floor of this?

[idgiehkt]

11. lol

it would be funny to see google end up with a $4 billion dinosaur in no time flat. They'd better get it together. You know, the guys who started the original youtube ought to start another one up, call it 2tube or something, and work out the kinks, make it better than youtube, and sell it to Yahoo for even more money.

:rofl:

[Crabby Appleton]

4. You are correct! sucks more than they used to.

[TheMightyFavog]

6. Yet they have hundreds of copies the Saddam hanging video.

Hypocracy, thy name is YouTube.

At least with google video, you can download videos to your computer and watch them if you have iTunes.

[sendero]

8. Didn't..

.... Google buy YouTube?

[idgiehkt]

9. yes

what is driving me nuts is the tag spamming so if you search for anything all these porn site teasers come up. It's insane. And the morans who load 7 seconds of cellphone video on there. Why??? Google could improve it but it looks like they are not willing to. Viacom has yanked a bunch of stuff in the last couple weeks, they must have a whole dept of people hired just to kill stuff on there.

[Ignacio Upton]

12. The entertainment industry has sought to it to make sure that YouTube gets destroyed

They even claim that it's copyright infringement if you post of video of yourself doing something goofy with one of their songs or shows in the background. Fuck them. First they sue the elderly and little kids for music downloading, now this shit? I'm sorry, but Viacom can take the DMCA and shove it up its collective ass. I should have every right to post a karaoke video or an old MTV music video that will never be played again.

[idgiehkt]

15. It would be like Random House bursting into libraries

and yanking all their books of the shelves.

:rofl:

[Ignacio Upton]

17. Don't give them ideas!

:crazy: :scared:

[Nicole]

14. Yes n/t

[bridgit]

13. well yeah, MTV & Comedy Central have pulled stuff too, but the really important...

stuff is still there so far:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvyOk90EWU4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYRMgImEqw8&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b08ZgS3_t8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fypFt_zvW1w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkfAl4PHG8E

[bridgit]

16. oh, and this one: I'm a Barbie Girl (Japanese Version)...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIXlcCPlJwc :headbang:

[Downtown Hound]

19. Whaaa! I want to see Barbie Girl!

But Barbie Girl not working now!

I want to be a Barbie girl too!

:cry:

[bridgit]

21. dammit!! if you're right!! you-tube sucks now!!!!!!

:cry:

[Kat45]

30. Viacom owns those two networks.

Viacom's pulling their stuff off adds up to a lot of things.

[Pool Hall Ace]

18. It sure is. So many favorites are disappearing.

Pretty soon, all that will be left will be videos of teenagers pulling "Jackass" style stunts and parents coaxing Maddysen-MaKinzee to say "Hi."

[mitchum]

20. Between the porn ban and now this, how is a lizard brain guy supposed to get his sex and death kicks

[Downtown Hound]

22. Become a Republican

Jeez I thought that would have been a no-brainer.

[mitchum]

24. Damn it, you're right,,,but they just dress so poorly

[Kat45]

29. There's a site called porntube, similar to youtube but for porn

I guess that's how a guy is supposed to get his sex kicks. :D

[Redstone]

23. Then fuck 'em. I'm not going there anymore. For anything.

Redstone

[ContraBass Black]

25. Images of death, combat, or lethal violence have always been against YouTube's Terms of Service.

[Downtown Hound]

26. Policy or not, I'd say youtube has been guilty of "selective enforcement"

As others have pointed out, there are many videos of Saddam's hanging. There are many gung ho jacked up patriotic "tributes" to the troops on youtube, with no real emphasis on the consequences of the war. Recently there was a video put out by the Iraqi resistance, that showed no violence or serious blood. It was merely a plea by them for us to leave their country. It was removed with no explanation.

I know you can't really call this "censorship" because yoututbe is a private site. But it still pisses me off. Whether it's the government or it's corporations, we are still being spoon-fed a sanitized version of this war. So while I can't say youtube is guilty of censorship, I can say they definitely suck.

[bridgit]

27. agreed...

[ContraBass Black]

28. You-tube only removes videos that get a lot of complaints.

That's why Michelle Malkin's videos are gone. They don't watch all or much of what is submitted, as that would be several hours of video every minute.