Aw shucks, thanks for the save swampy. I was expecting the clip to suffer a slow and painful death, but the hound came flying in to the rescue!

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*save

Ey, no problem! It was a fun video with a bit of insight into how the game will [eventually] work. Post more videos, whydon'tcha! ;-D

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“Hey Pyrex... Thanks for your support and your playlist plug on the Bioshock video! I was content lurking on here for quite a while, but it certainly helps having my first attempts at contributing reinforced like that. Glad you enjoyed!”

Sometimes I wonder if it's 256 or even 2048-bit

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“Heh, that made me laugh

In reply to your comment:
“If bl's interpretation is indeed what's hidden behind choggies 128-bit encoded message, then aye, this I'd like to see as well.””

Thank ye! Fly, my pretties, flyyyy! :-P

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“awesome Pyrex, top 15! ”

Heya! Think I could an invite to the collective?

Ah, danke! Found this by accident today, thought it a shame for it not to fall under the appropriate collective :-D

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“Of course


In reply to your comment:
“Hey there! Think I could get an invite to zhe collective?””

Yeah I've only really been using the Firefox VideoDownloader extension for a while, but only really for saving the stuff I _know_ I'll one day want to take a look back at or share with friends. Makes me feel.. comfortably cool? :-P Just sad that we're forced to create backups of already-diminished-in-quality videos because one corporation or another is afraid we may spread them illegally/their brand misinterpreted/whatever the hell their justification.

In regards to individual users; it's entirely up to them of course, though I can't help but feel like they're making the same mistake as the corps; failing to see that YES we know whoever posted this on their blog or site isn't the actual owner of the video, but the source is always unquestionable (just click on the video embed, yo!)

Ugh, sorry, just a peeve of mine in these days of.. confusing legalism and bureaucracy.

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“Yeah it took me a while to backup all 70ish. But now that I've caught up, I just post two three videos at a time, and do backups of them at the same time I post em. Its routine now

Theres many websites that let you download the actual video file, like http://www.videodl.org/ .. But I just use a python script to fetch em. No difference, just makes me feel cooler

Then theres those people who like disabling embeds, like the tiger squirt video. Don't really know whats up with that. Like you said, it must be some kinda silly arrogance. Its stupid if you ask me”

Oh right, yeah that was probably Silvercord, sorry. A lot of users seem to be providing "third party" services to VS lately, hehe.

Anywho, keeping backups is probably a good idea, but do you really have copies of your 70-ish posts? If so, yowza(!). I just talked to Farhad the other day about what kind of stuff was removed by Viacom, and some of it is just unbelievable. He mentioned an Uzbek music video he posted; gone done disappeared. WHY?!

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“Well, I think that was Silvercord, but I can't be too sure, who posted in SiftTalk. He was offering some sort of free for all youtube account where you could upload yourself. Anyhow, I tend to keep backups of all my videos in case Viacom goes insane. You know that pizza baseball video got taken down? It just drives me nuts that I didn't make a backup of it! gah”

Ah excellent! Didn't you post about that in Sift Talk a while ago? Anyway, a great service to keep in mind. In this case I was lucky enough to find an exact duplicate of the YouTube video on GVid which didn't have the embed disabled.

Fun note: the GVid version was published September 2006, while the YouTube post was upped November 2006, and it's THAT post which is now getting attention around the web. Just feels like the YouTube poster was being a little arrogant in disabling the embed on it. Whatever, in this case, I suppose :-P

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“if you need to upload the videos on youtube that are disabled embeds, just give me a holler. I'll download the flv and reupload it into my own youtube account and enable embed with little or no quality loss

The YouTube post had disable embed code, but the Google Video version did not. However, the YouTube version had the above + more.

Additional info here.”

A fellow Farker, I presume? I noticed by all the slashies :-D

Oh, and a slightly delayed welcome to the sift, etc!

So I was just looking through previously posted Star Wars stuff and found this video posted by you, but sadly it's dead. Rather, your comment seems to have come true:

"I just hope the house of Lucas doesn't come crashing down on them."

:-(

*points to kinda-shiny-thing beside name* :-D

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“Two more post for the bronze, get ur hinder in to sifting ”