Farewell YouTube
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCVxQ_3Ejkg

Google bought them out. The countdown to copyright crackdown, ad bombardment, and feature restrictions to permote big cable companies and broadcast cooperations rather than the common user, which was the whole point.

It was fun while it lasted. :(

I need help now. I'm going to go raid everything I want to keep before the Google lawyer hounds start removing half the videos for copyright enfringement. Does anybody know of a quality video screen capture tool I can use?

I heard about that the other day... I was hoping they wouldn't sell :( I've got some pretty decent stuff on my account hate to see it all gone.

Yeah, the reason Google Video has nothing on YouTube is because they remove so much. Now that they've got YouTube, well, google video is going to get a tad more popular. Day by day, the free internet is becomming more and more controlled by cooperations. Within five years, it'll be as restricted as broadcast television, which is what they want....the old system enforced.

*sigh*

Sadly, I believe you are right.

*nods in agreement* This is truely horrible. All the anime I can watch on there will possibly be taken down. That's one of the reasons YouTube is so popular - you can watch anime, you can watch fan-made movies, you can see people dancing like a monkey or something. If YouTube goes down the drain with the copyrighting and that, I really do hope a new YouTube will sprout out of the ground and become as popular as YouTube is right now.

*silently hopes that nothing bad will happen, even though it is pretty much pointless*

I don't get sky tv so I watch a lot of old stuff on youtube. Hope it doesn't all go.

teh interwebs is teh doomed?

BitTorrent has become your new friend. Add 'em to your friend list and invite him to a party!

Meanwhile Grouper has been baught by Sony..... but they're apperantly not gonna change it and will keep it as their free video thing. :P

This was the ONE thing I was hoping wouldn't happen to the damn thing, and it has. I mean, they had a lot of great anime clips... stuff that isn't even translated as fan subs or dubs because there isn't enough interrest... Kinnikuman, Tiger Mask, all that. All because Japanese producers don't want competition for the stuff they actually sell ONLY over there, with no interrest over here due to lack of support and no profit. I truely hope a new Youtube comes out of all of this, but it won't.... maybe it could, if some hackers are Pissed enough.

But who REALLY uses Youtube to see old fat lonley Minnesotan women post film their cat falling off a television because it was rejected by America's funniest home videos.

Fekk copywrite infringement. There's someone going around selling bootlegg copies of "everyone's Hero" and "Grudge 2" in the subway, people selling bootlegg Calvin Pissing on Hobbs T-shirts, and they want to stop Honest people from seeing 5 minute clips of stuff they refuse to air on TV, but fearcely protect the copywrite of, even though they aren't the creators and just bought the damn thing.

Greedy imbeciles that sold it to google... I wanna know where they live sos I can rob them blind. :evilgrin:

Well... Google has an office here in Seattle so if anybody wants me to I can just head on over to Kirkland and complain.

They also have offices in California, Michigan, New York, Georgia, Colorado, Massachusetts, Illinois, Texas... Heck they're all over the fricken world....even Turkey!

Funny enough they have driving directions to their main office in California. :lol:

http://www.google.com/intl/en/corporate/address.html

Hey guys chin up! We are one step ahead as always. Another video site will surface and so forth. As when Kazza went down Lime.Wire surfaced. And Bit Torrent. Eventually Bit Torrent will be shut down but we will move onto a new format. Until then enjoy.

They want to region lock the Internet? That's easy to get past. Change your IP to the country you want to view. I know how to do that. And it works I used to be registered as some guy in Europe on my Internet. I would spam forums I didn't like back in the day and they never caught me. It should work for this too.

Hackers run the Internet not corporations.

Region locks... well... so much for going forward with Progress. Regional encoding is the DUMBEST thing ever, anywhere, ever ever. I mean, REALLY! It's like regional encoding was invented by people who wanted to piss the US off. That's why people used Youtube. Cuz you copuld get that stuff, but you can't watch it. Though... it would probably help Youtube type sites based in the US. No Japanese buisnessmen takin' away stuff they can't/won't sell over here!

an illusion that made you spam and act "real mature" (no one runs it, certains just allow it to be)

Yeah my post was totally spam, excapt I was actually talking about something that applies to the topic unlike you who tried insulting me and failed horribly.

Now this is spam...but this is a response to your spam, thus now you have caused a huge off topic discussion.

no, i meant the spam mentioned in your message +_-

Ah okay misunderstood you there sorry about that. Yes I used to spam forums like 4 years ago. I was n00b