Okay. I’m out of YouTube. I refuse to use the service any longer. Recent changes made it very obvious they don’t want users with large archives. The site is very very slow and I have over 30 pages of videos. Browsing to page 28 took me exactly 12 minutes, whereas before the interface update I could just click the page I wanted to see. Turns out a few of my uploaded videos were rejected due to inappropriate content, which I totally don’t get, because nobody got killed, no nudity was shown and no dirty language was in it. It didn’t feature any stolen music and I didn’t sing. Then why is it inappropriate? Because some puritan mind flagged the movie in the hopes it would make the world a better place? Well I’ve had it with these random rejections. I don’t take it anymore. There is totally no way to defend you against this, you get no warning at all if a clip has been flagged, you just have to come to the conclusion whilst browsing your video archive. This particular clip was uploaded in September last year. It’s been on there for months, and all of the sudden the content isn’t appropriate anymore?
I wanted to check out some archives from friends I made through YouTube, but when I opened my subscription list, only 5 people still had a video archive. Nathan got kicked, Professor Smile (who didn’t do anything but sing songs while he played on his guitar and videoblog his thoughts) started again under a new name because his account had been cancelled as well. And the list goes on. I can name you at least 10 other people on my subscription list that either said “screw YouTube” and left or silently took multiple other accounts in the hopes the content would last longer. Well, I’m not taking any more chances. Nathan got his account cancelled because of the Google commercial and some SNL sketches. I’ve had my two strikes with SNL too. The Google commercial is still there. Is it offensive? No. It’s boring as hell. Then why does it get you kicked? Nobody knows. SNL is tricky. YouTube did have a point there. But they warned me fair and square. So I took those videos down.
You can perform searches about almost anything you know from music or tv-shows. All you see are violations. Yet still. They’re allowed. Of course it would be denied if you asked YouTube, because in fact they’re not allowed. But it’s so much and so ubiquitous they can’t manage anymore. Aren’t there any rights on Manga videos? On cartoons? Sure there are. But if YouTube should really do what they state in their chapter, 2/3 of it’s users would be kicked out. And that threatens the business model. So what they do is put out little fires here and there.
It would be quite funny to create fake profiles and go around and flag every violation you see, and keep notes of the ones you’ve flagged. It would keep you busy for weeks. If everybody did this YouTube wouldn’t be as big anymore is it looks now. How come no lawyer collective actually threw itself on this?
I’m not going to upload anything anymore. The people I used to know on YouTube got banned, saw their accounts set to zero or just left by themselves. No matter how hard they try, YouTube isn’t the attractive videohoster it used to be. It became too corporate, too yadda yadda and far too bloathed with options, groups and whatever.
I see TinyPic just started to accept video uploads, and their player looks really slim. You can choose tags to add and the accepted formats: avi, mov, mpeg, asf, wmv, divx, 3gp, qt & dv. I’ll see if this turns out any good.
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Dennis
May 19, 2006 at 5:45 pm
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Jeff K
May 19, 2006 at 5:48 pm
I seriously think your a prick for going and dobbing people into youtube who have infringed copyright.
You sit and complain about how you got banned but then you want to get others banned aswell .. It’s kinda like ” If i’m going down .. then i want to bring everyone down with me ! ”
You remind me of the kid at school who got in trouble for talking or breaking some rule .. dobs anyone else in who wouldnt have been caught otherwise.
You need to grow up and get over it.
I think there’s a good chance that your reply to the Youtube team was what got you banned. I can only imagin your tone to them..
Anyway .. it is their site and YOU chose to join.
No need to bring all the others down with you just cause you think so highly of yourself.
Youtube is better than google and ifilm put together..
Anyway this is the end of my rant..
Sincerley
The You Tube Team
( jokes )
Princess Of Bullshit
May 24, 2006 at 12:18 pm
dragging everyone down with you seems kinda fun…………… think i’ll make a fake account and try that lol.
hey, i got nothin’ else to do.
and while im at it, Jeff K, go kiss the makers of youtube since you seem to love them so much
Prince Of Bullshit
May 24, 2006 at 12:21 pm
princess of bullshit, i love you. will you come rule the kingdom of bullshit with me?
Marry me, princess of bullshit?
please say yes. i want to spend the rest of my lfie with you, raising little fuckers who won’t shut up; more princesses and princes of Bullshit
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June 4, 2006 at 10:27 pm
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Raymond Stolp
June 25, 2006 at 3:44 am
Now I know EVERYTHING about YouTube. Now I can die happy.
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Blade Reynon
August 11, 2006 at 9:30 pm
A friend showed me this and I felt that I should post a comment in it to show that I hate YouTube as well. First of all the friend that showed me this was kicked off and she was my only subscriber. she had only made an InuYasha Loves Coke commercial. So the commpanies that own InuYasha had a fit, and my movies were linked to hers. And here I am wondering, if my movies are directly linked to hers, then why wasn’t I told that I was infringing for using InuYasha stuff? And that got me mad, on top of that I was using Naruto content too, and THAT didn’t get me an E-mail about me infringing. So I quit using YouTube and I’m never coming back.
Mattie
August 18, 2006 at 1:43 am
Getting money from investors is a LOAN. They have to pay back the investors and make a profit. Even if they received investment money, they’re losing money. It’s a free service. Get over it.
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damien
December 19, 2006 at 1:21 pm
i’d like to get in touch with this guy. my account also got deleted with any warning. youtube didnt send me any warnings at all i just went to my profile and it said it got deleted. ive sent youtube emails as to why this happened with no reply. this user liamfrancomb said he could get my account suspended, he sent me abusive and hateful mail. so did another user homefromtheoffice to which i repiled to. anyway my account is suspended and theirs intact. i dont get it. does anyone know if u can get ur account back. if anyone feels like it spamm this guys profile liamfrancomb or his new account damzionkiller. if anyone has the same problems contact me. damzion@hotmail.com
Zach Harris
February 28, 2007 at 1:02 am
I think I know what the problem is! I think some people on YouTube just like to flag videos just to piss everyone off!!! Man I’d like to find those assholes and teach them the true meaning of PAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
till
March 6, 2007 at 6:49 pm
It’s been said before – try vimeo. They are the nicer people. Only downside – the upload limit. But other than that really good.
Ya, screw youtube
March 11, 2007 at 9:59 am
They got success and they think they have reached the top. Screw youtube and their copyright policies. What happened to Internet Freedom? I used to watch old 90’s Music Videos which are hard to find on crappy American MTV and VH1 these days. All they show is rap all the time. Now they started deleting so many of the videos. Its like George Bush or Dick Cheney ownes youtube now. Youtube sucks bigtime. Screw them. I will wait for a free to use video site to come up.
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April 10, 2007 at 10:21 am
[...] YouTube, un site care din punctul meu de vedere este mai bun ca google video, se pare ca se confrunta cu anumite probleme. Dupa ce ca banda sitelui ii costa 1 milion $ pe luna, ei mai au si probleme cu legalitatea siteului..se spune ca siteul este ilegal. Eh..sa speram ca nu se va inchide sau ceva. mai multe zoso si coolz0r. [...]
kase
July 10, 2007 at 6:09 am
freakin youtube deleted all anime videos, i was gonna watch “Candy Candy” this vacation(on latin spanish), one day i checked and many episodes where there, next week i was gonna wacht but they had been deleted, youtube sucks, so i started watching anime at veoh, dailiymotion,metacafe. is there any way to directly complain to youtube or at least tell them to fuck off?
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Raymond Stolp
July 27, 2007 at 1:02 am
I too have quit YouTube.
The Rock Star life is just too much for me.
Here is my farewell video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mpkAdaG9yU
SIMON
August 19, 2007 at 6:39 pm
IT SEEMS more and more people are getting terminated wiyhout a valid reason and no feedback…they decide who stays and who goes….u upload content pouring ur heart and soul,,u make and meet some friendly folks and add feedback..then suddenly ..bang ur gone ..not a good feeling…all that work of vids and clips and connections gone within a second why..who knows..hollow feeling ,rejection all that…but as we speak there are more coming down ..we are not alone…good luck to youtube..its great to see vids and clips..they forget its all about people and expressions,,, no need to be so cruel youtube
big pimpin'
October 5, 2007 at 1:47 am
why does it matter if you like or dislike you tube you don’t want to be there hit it.
big pimpin'
October 5, 2007 at 1:49 am
you can obviously find othe places and ways to express yourself so don’t be so mellow dramatic
trev
October 19, 2007 at 5:39 pm
it looks like youtube is the next business to go down just all the others.
ive just tried to log on and it is taking a ridicoulous amount of time.
i assume it is slow because thousands are trying to log on at the same time
therefore overloading the servers?
you know
i do sympathise with musicians and artists who are trying to protect what they legally own.
i mean if stuff is being upoading for free onto youtube
then why would anyone bother buying the tape or dvd?
this is a problem that no amount of infringement laws will ever stop.
people will always go for the cheaper version rather than pay a higher price for the real thing.
no doubt this is why youtube is so popular.
but then again before youtube there was kazaa and winmx and the other one and all them fell into the same trap which caused their downfall.
it just shows that big companies have power because they have lots of money they can pay lawyers to fight their case against the small fry.
i really think people are fed up with all this copyright stuff.
the message the big companies close their ears to is that people dont like having to be overcharged just to listen to watch something.
dawn
January 19, 2008 at 7:39 am
They’ll die! Like ebay and all this tech-poo.