Vintage Video Preservation
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 1:18 am
A couple of months ago i started some drama that led to an interesting tangent about the community impact of streaming video hosting websites such as youtube. Preppy brought up some compelling arguments against them, and i'd like to continue that discussion here.
Personally i don't have an account on youtube or video.google or any of those other places. Nearly all of my old videos have been uploaded to youtube, by a dozen different people, without my consent. Apart from Thongboy Bebop and burningfist, nobody has even bothered asking me.
To be honest though, i'm fine with that. I mean, i don't feel fully comfortable giving anyone permission to host my videos, especially with so much scary fine print relating to ownership and licensing hidden within those account registration agreements. But if it's done without my explicit permission, then i feel somewhat safer because i can always have it taken down. As far as people using my videos to make themselves more popular on youtube, i don't let it bother me cuz i don't have time to worry about the stupidity of the internet. At the end of the day, the fighting game community (SRK, CV, CX, TZ, etc.) is the only pocket of the internet i give a damn about. I don't consider random fools on youtube anymore a part of our core community than random posters on IGN fighting game forums, so i don't feel at all responsible for their actions.
Nonetheless, youtube does provide an undeniably userful service. For example, i have this huge set of SFA3 matches between Daigo and Masumi where both use nothing but A-Ryu. It is beautiful. Today i was having some discussion where i wanted to point to those matches, but they aren't available online anywhere.
Isn't there some way we can use youtube to our advantage without letting it erode our own video hosting "ecosystem" (as preppy called it)?
Personally i don't have an account on youtube or video.google or any of those other places. Nearly all of my old videos have been uploaded to youtube, by a dozen different people, without my consent. Apart from Thongboy Bebop and burningfist, nobody has even bothered asking me.
To be honest though, i'm fine with that. I mean, i don't feel fully comfortable giving anyone permission to host my videos, especially with so much scary fine print relating to ownership and licensing hidden within those account registration agreements. But if it's done without my explicit permission, then i feel somewhat safer because i can always have it taken down. As far as people using my videos to make themselves more popular on youtube, i don't let it bother me cuz i don't have time to worry about the stupidity of the internet. At the end of the day, the fighting game community (SRK, CV, CX, TZ, etc.) is the only pocket of the internet i give a damn about. I don't consider random fools on youtube anymore a part of our core community than random posters on IGN fighting game forums, so i don't feel at all responsible for their actions.
Nonetheless, youtube does provide an undeniably userful service. For example, i have this huge set of SFA3 matches between Daigo and Masumi where both use nothing but A-Ryu. It is beautiful. Today i was having some discussion where i wanted to point to those matches, but they aren't available online anywhere.
Isn't there some way we can use youtube to our advantage without letting it erode our own video hosting "ecosystem" (as preppy called it)?