Comments for "How to post YouTube videos marked "do not embed"" Talk at VideoSift.com

By kulpims

kulpims (http://howto.videosift.com/member/kulpims) — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 05:52:25 -0700

ha! this really works! amazing. yet somewhat tedious. *quality

By siftbot

siftbot (http://howto.videosift.com/member/siftbot) — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 05:52:26 -0700

Awarding wazant with one star point for this contribution to Sift Talk - declared quality by kulpims.

By schmawy

schmawy (http://schmawy.videosift.com) — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 06:40:48 -0700

I tried this some time ago. It didn't work. I'll have to try it again.
[E]: Is this against the spirit of VS? The logic has always been "if you provide an embed code, then you want to share it".

By darkrowan

darkrowan (http://howto.videosift.com/member/darkrowan) — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 07:49:49 -0700

I'm with Schmawy's concerns... to a point: My issue has always been with content creators that hoard this vids on YT, not realizing that sharing could bring in even more viewers/buyers. I see a lot of record labels that have their own YT channels do this. Irks me to no end.

But yeah, this is a big gray area I think.

By choggie

choggie (http://howto.videosift.com/member/choggie) — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 08:38:19 -0700

gray, white, or black, this is a great help, thanks loads waznat......

By cheesemoo

cheesemoo (http://howto.videosift.com/member/cheesemoo) — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 09:38:17 -0700

Hey, nice. I'm surprised this works. Thanks!

By critttter

critttter (http://howto.videosift.com/member/critttter) — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:00:48 -0700

Didn't work for me. Dang.

And I figure if you don't want to share it, you don't post it on YT. Things can potentially become public domain on YT, but it seems like having your cake and eating it too when you disable the embed to retain control. It's a free website, they aren't charged anything for the free exposure. I think they should have to pay to disable the embed since it's a free website for sharing video and they aren't (totally) sharing, they are using it as an advertising platform.

I'm tired, I hope I'm making sense...