Okay so I totally stole the title from a Doctor Who song - Christmas episode.
But I have been silent but now I have returned.
One of the reasons why I haven't updated/posted anything on my blog is partly because I deleted the app on my iPhone.
A lot of things has happened since last I wrote so I suppose this post will end up as a boring update of the things that has occurred in my absence.
First though let me rant.
Youtube has informed me that I now hold one strike. A strike for a video I uploaded in 2009 I believe.
It is of me and my best friend singing and acting out "What is this Feeling" from the musical Wicked.
I had to agree as in yes I have read and understood that I have violated the copyrights...
But if this wasn't enough I had to go through all of these questions I had to answer to get to my account.
Basically my Youtube account is pretty basic and pretty much like most of the accounts on youtube.
And yet they are after us. Most of my videos contain copyrighted material. I do not use this as a way to earn money nor promote myself nor do I claim to be the owner of the content.
You see you can only get so and so many strikes, actually they do not inform you how many strikes you have before they shut down your account and delete all of your videos.
And when you do go and read the rules/guide lines there are none.
So do I take a chance? Do I let my videos stand or do I take them down and keep my account?
There's a risk, as they say, of getting prosecuted because of the content in said videos.
But then what about all the popular people on Youtube using other peoples material?
Why do some get away with it while the smaller and less significant fish don't?
At this point I just feel like leaving and never look back.
Maybe I should do it. Maybe I should break up with Youtube.
Btw what I have been using is music, I used to do covers. I used to fandub.
I USED to.
But now I don't know what to do.
Isn't Youtube supposed to be a site with user generated content?
It's not like I go to the movies and film stuff and then upload it.
Believe me I am all for protecting artists but in this day and age it does no longer appear to be them copyrights are protecting.
I feel a small rage bubbling inside of me and yet I feel saddened by the prospect of leaving Youtube merely because the videos I've uploaded since 2008 are a part of me.
Because of said videos I have met so many amazing people.
I became a part of something bigger. A part of a community.
That is what I will be leaving behind. All the work and all of the memories.
I do not nor will I morn Youtube but I will morn my friends and all of the memories we created.
I have been touched by videos on Youtube. Videos according to them we should not have been allowed to see. Life looks bleak.
I almost feel old looking back and remembering how it used to be.
Goodbye Youtube. You changed too much. You've become someone, something entirely different.
You are no longer a playing ground but a dictatorship.
I may sound harsh but for the past years I have only seen all to clearly where we were headed but despite it all I still hoped.
Hope is now dead and so is the world of Youtube I used to know and love.
Rant done but now I no longer feel like updating on what else has happened...
Later. It shall come later.
The Dane has left but she hopes to return.
Oh and it seems like I have a boyfriend. Strange.
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