Tag Archive: video

Copyright fun with Vimeo and Google

Vimeo folks wrote me a nice letter a few days ago, noticing me they have removed a bunch of my videos from my account, videos that were breaking their rules. From 100+ videos, they removed half. I reviewed a few of them and asked myself, and them, how is this video, par example, breaking the rules. It wasn’t, they were too eager to delete videos, without even thinking or viewing the videos.

On the other hand, Google has a favorite phrase when dealing with copyright issues: “we have decided not to take any action, but we encourage you to resolve the issue with the blog owner instead”. I sometimes want to reply with “bitch, if i could resolve the issue with the people stealing my content, you think i would bother you” or “dear imbecile, if they realize they are stealing my content, they would not be stealing it anymore”.

Tumblr are another story. They will sell and disclose user information to third party companies they pay them to, but they will protect their users from someone like me, asking for my content to be removed from their servers. It’s in their TOS.

There is a well knoww issue that Chrome is not blocking video ads inside videos, even if the adblock rules state the video ad should be blocked. And I am not talking about YouTube videos, either.

I have found a workaround for those intrusive autoplay non-skipable videos that some sites use. It requires some work, but it pays of in the end. The solutions is create a new rule in the Adblock are, with the domain the video ad is streaming from.

Something like this:

$domain=adserver.domain.de

The solution is not working 100%, but for some sites it does.

Amazon pricing

Let’s take a Sony HDR TG3 camcorder. I’ve receive one from sony to play with for a couple of weeks. I really like it and i want to buy one.

A Canon 400D, my current camera:

Did i mention that the dollar is weaker that the euro? And the European Union has the same taxes for electronics in every country?

Back with the noise

So I was looking for “tiger attacks” on YouTube. I watched 20 videos and I did not see any tiger attack. I saw a lot of noise, a lot of pixelated video, a lot of talk and a lot of misnamed videos. But I did 20 page views and 20 video views. So I contributed to the success of YouTube, even if I left half an hour later, unsatisfied.

There is a lot of crappy content on YouTube. Just like Google. A lot of seo, a lot of stupid folk, a lot of noise. Little good or useful content. And then some people wonder why hulu.com makes 80 million dollars a year with little content, while YouTube has millions and billions of videos and views…