Comments on: Outrageous and so on

By: Capt. Red

Capt. Red — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:02:21 +0000

his this been resolved? i can’t access Vimeo at my university due to strict MP3 streaming firewall issues… might i suggest that if any of your “machinima” movies are of an instructive or educational nature that you upload them to TeacherTube.
~Capt. Red

By: Ordinal Malaprop

Ordinal Malaprop — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:28:25 +0000

Well, as usual they do say they will allow “machinima”, and the Blessed Torley seems to be permitted to use it, but then the Blessed Torley has the protection of the Angels of the Laboratory. It seems something of a risk to take.

I note on one of the Vimeo discussion threads that somebody is already reporting that they have had a piece deleted, which they say _did_ have a “story” and was not just game footage.

By: Hotspur

Hotspur — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:28:11 +0000

BLIP.TV won’t host gaming videos? Drat, I had such a good opinion of that service– I use them to stream Marx Brothers movies in world, and was hoping to do the same with a larger machinima project I am working on. Oh well, glad I found that out before I lost anything critical.

I wonder what the objection is? Are the reasons discussed ANYwhere?

By: Rhianon Jameson

Rhianon Jameson — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:51:00 +0000

I am perhaps most outraged at the designation “game.” If you prick us, do we not bleed? (Well, perhaps not so much.) If you wrong us, shall we not revenge? (From what I’ve observed, quite.) A game? I consider what my typist does to be a game, the purpose of which is, however, not entirely clear. I engage in Living!

*sniffs*

By: Opensource Obscure

Opensource Obscure — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:28:40 +0000

I have two friends in SL whose accounts and videos have been removed by blip.tv for similar reasons. I don’t consider blip.tv (nor Vimeo, obviously) a safe place for my videos anymore.

By: Vlad Bjornson

Vlad Bjornson — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 05:22:54 +0000

I just recently started using Vimeo a couple of weeks ago. Love it! Such a positive community of creative folks. I was a bit worried when I read that blog post, thinking that many creative SL (and other) Machinima pieces might get the axe. I’ll pop over to the Vimeo forums and put in my L$2 in support of SL vids. Hopefully the upload moderators will err on the side of caution and allow the community to help them decide what is gameplay and what is a creative use of Machinima.

By: Bettina Tizzy

Bettina Tizzy — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:54:59 +0000

I had not heard of Vimeo’s new policy until now, Ordinal. I wonder what prompted this? It is, indeed, a very serious problem. In addition to possibly deleting the only copies of many people’s videos, they will also be damaging many blogposts that link back to them. I hope they will reconsider. Please let me know if there is anything I should sign, etc.

By: Zoe Connolly

Zoe Connolly — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 22:23:43 +0000

It is indeed outrageous! And a few other choice words I shall not disgrace your blog by using here in the comments.

I’ve enjoyed the quality of the website since you brought Vimeo to my attention and I’ve just been using it during the past 30 days or so. I was planning to use my account there as an archive of my favorite machinima.

I know there’s YouTube, WeGame and many others. But this is very disappointing.

*sighs*