A Call To Action
As many of you are painfully aware the deadpool has ballooned in the past few weeks due, mainly, to copyright issues. As of this posting there are currently over 2000 videos that are waiting to be fixed. A lot of people have already started working on fixing them, but we need some more help in restoring some of this videos and the appropriate votes to the submitter. So I humbly ask of you, my sifting brethren to make an effort to help find new sources for these videos in limbo.
As a preventative measure I'd recommend finding a non-youtube source for new videos if possible as they seem to be the hardest hit, right now at least. Hopefully we can avoid another avalanche of deadness, but I'm afraid the worst is yet to come.
As a preventative measure I'd recommend finding a non-youtube source for new videos if possible as they seem to be the hardest hit, right now at least. Hopefully we can avoid another avalanche of deadness, but I'm afraid the worst is yet to come.
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guessandcheckhttp://www.videosift.com/deadpool
mauz15Will do.
Just wanted to add a good search engine for finding videos (I use it mainly when I fix dead documentaries though).
http://search.ovguide.com/
rasch187Fixing vids is really boring. No way I'm doing that.
[edit]: also, you're all posers. I was fixing vids before it became fashionable
campionidelmondo>> ^rasch187:
Fixing vids is really boring. No way I'm doing that.
There should be hidden prizes placed randomly behind dead videos. Like a star point, or a personalized haiku from dag or whatever.
guessandcheckalso as a side note. good meta tags really help find the correct video. it's difficult finding replacements when you only have a freeze frame pic and a vague title.
mauz15>> ^rasch187:
Fixing vids is really boring. No way I'm doing that.
[edit]: also, you're all posers. I was fixing vids before it became fashionable
Jesus Christ, 3 weeks ago I was impressed because you had 750 dead pool fixes and now it is almost doubled.
kronosposeidonDailymotion also regularly purges copyrighted videos, so avoid them if you can.
Many music video replacements can be found at MTV Music, but the only downside to that is that they are blocked in Canada. Still, if you can't find a replacement anywhere else then you gotta do what you gotta do. Also Yahoo! Music videos are generally safe if they've been specifically uploaded by Yahoo! Music, and they aren't region-blocked either.
*quality
siftbotAwarding guessandcheck with one star point for this contribution to Sift Talk - declared quality by kronosposeidon.
mauz15Imeem.com has a lot of music videos, and they are not region blocked it seems.
http://www.imeem.com/videos/
EDDI usually search for replacements at http://video.google.com - they have tens if not hundreds of sources among which the search is carried out, including google video itself.
I also put most effort in reviving the top videos in the deadpool (http://www.videosift.com/deadpool?order=hivotes), but most of the ones that are now on its first couple of pages I know just don't exist anywhere anymore.
antI didn't get any rewards for fixing my own videos.
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