Major Labels Claim Copyright Over Public Domain Songs; YouTube Punishes Musician

Re:Major Labels Claim Copyright Over Public Domain Songs; Yo... by eridius on Tuesday August 28, 2012 @08:14PM (#4446484)

Someone really needs to compete with YouTube. I really hoped Vimeo could do it, since they actually have a pretty decent HTML5 player, but it doesn't seem to be happening.

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Re:Major Labels Claim Copyright Over Public Domain Songs; Yo... by TillE on Tuesday August 28, 2012 @08:32PM (#4446537)

For music (ie, audio only), SoundCloud is very popular. 120 minutes free, more storage and features as you pay more. It's a bad fit for podcasters, though.

For video, I don't really see anything wrong with Vimeo aside from its lack of critical mass. YouTube still has 99% of the content you want.

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Re:Major Labels Claim Copyright Over Public Domain Songs; Yo... by ktizo on Tuesday August 28, 2012 @08:59PM (#4446603)

Is funny how the two sites self select.

If you want to share film of yourself lighting farts, you put it on youtube.

Whereas if you want to make an detailed animation about philosophy's relationship to the colour blue, then you put it on vimeo, and if it is any good then someone else will put a badly transcoded version of it on youtube, which is where most people will watch it.

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Re:Major Labels Claim Copyright Over Public Domain Songs; Yo... by fpgeek on Tuesday August 28, 2012 @09:41PM (#4446701)

If Vimeo (or some other site) became a serious competitor to YouTube is there any reason to expect that they'd be any less deferential to the labels than YouTube is?

I'd say no, because I'd expect the labels to keep throwing lawsuits at a serious YouTube competitor until they were. Moreover, the labels have a new piece of ammunition they didn't have against YouTube: YouTube meets our requirements, why can't you?

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Re:Major Labels Claim Copyright Over Public Domain Songs; Yo... by mullingitover on Tuesday August 28, 2012 @09:09PM (#4446624)

Apple is defaulting to Vimeo in ios 6 instead of YouTube, so don't count them out yet.

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Re:Major Labels Claim Copyright Over Public Domain Songs; Yo... by Nick_C on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @01:03AM (#4447169)

re the decent player aspect: I've given up on Vimeo.

I use Firefox with the usual privacy plugins: NoScript, RequestPolicy, AdBlockPlus, and Ghostery. No matter how I configure the settings, including disabling all of them, I can't get Vimeo player to work.

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