Why the Sift shouldn't bow to Region Blocking
In a recent thread the topic of region blocking came up, I probably should have kept this writing for Ox's thread, but I want to embed a video...reading my shit can be painful, but at least I give you a gem of a video at the end.
When I first started visiting here way back in the day, Pre Viacom v YouTube. This was where early YouTube adapters came to sort out all the junk. We sifted up the Simpsons, The South Park clips, The Daily Show clips, The classic Movie Clips. The work we did to mashup all this media and present it in published clips created a great user experience for users and visitors. The membership was based off those who seeked quality. Lurkers Lurked because they counted on our community to provide the best clips. Simply put, there was less meme more quality.
It's a tough community to crack but I think we can all agree its a greatest place to comment on videos. I am a siftaholic and I fear Brian is going to sift my wallet dry if we don't think of a way to earn the sift more scratch.
Over the course of the years I am sure you as much as I, have witnessed the sift transform into a great community, we attract a niche of members who love nothing more then sharing, and that niche is generally good people. *ahem* even Choggie *ahem*
Many different groups of people get along here, and if you look at the front page, at any hour you can find an incredible mix of videos, but we are falling behind
The problem is, there are more and more places that people can go on the net these days to watch Videos, and post Viacom v YouTube many of those sites are unfortunately region blocked. I don't think this trend will hold up on the Internet, I hear Hulu.com even made a statement that they intend on going global.
Hulu.com, Thedailyshow.com, ComedyCentral, South Park Studios are deep archives that can be thoroughly be sifted for the Gems. We owe it to our audience to be sure to provide them with the greatest clips of the net, as we are left to scrape the bottom of YouTube, more quality content is being found elsewhere.
If you can't view the video below, Brian has offered One solution, ask me and I can help you find other ways, this is the Internet, we are media revolutionaries, we will not be censored.
As previously discussed, I say a *Regionblock invoc gets installed, and perhaps a Profile Setting that allows users to hide *regionblocked videos.
Letting us Sifters loose on these archives could create a real videosift renaissance....er a Siftaissance
Since I'm sharing ideas, I might as well pile on another
When I first started visiting here way back in the day, Pre Viacom v YouTube. This was where early YouTube adapters came to sort out all the junk. We sifted up the Simpsons, The South Park clips, The Daily Show clips, The classic Movie Clips. The work we did to mashup all this media and present it in published clips created a great user experience for users and visitors. The membership was based off those who seeked quality. Lurkers Lurked because they counted on our community to provide the best clips. Simply put, there was less meme more quality.
It's a tough community to crack but I think we can all agree its a greatest place to comment on videos. I am a siftaholic and I fear Brian is going to sift my wallet dry if we don't think of a way to earn the sift more scratch.
Over the course of the years I am sure you as much as I, have witnessed the sift transform into a great community, we attract a niche of members who love nothing more then sharing, and that niche is generally good people. *ahem* even Choggie *ahem*
Many different groups of people get along here, and if you look at the front page, at any hour you can find an incredible mix of videos, but we are falling behind
The problem is, there are more and more places that people can go on the net these days to watch Videos, and post Viacom v YouTube many of those sites are unfortunately region blocked. I don't think this trend will hold up on the Internet, I hear Hulu.com even made a statement that they intend on going global.
Hulu.com, Thedailyshow.com, ComedyCentral, South Park Studios are deep archives that can be thoroughly be sifted for the Gems. We owe it to our audience to be sure to provide them with the greatest clips of the net, as we are left to scrape the bottom of YouTube, more quality content is being found elsewhere.
If you can't view the video below, Brian has offered One solution, ask me and I can help you find other ways, this is the Internet, we are media revolutionaries, we will not be censored.
As previously discussed, I say a *Regionblock invoc gets installed, and perhaps a Profile Setting that allows users to hide *regionblocked videos.
Letting us Sifters loose on these archives could create a real videosift renaissance....er a Siftaissance
Since I'm sharing ideas, I might as well pile on another
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