If you want to post a YouTube video marked "Embedding disabled by request", then do this:
1. Create a playlist with the video(s)
2. Make a "custom player" for that playlist, which provides its own embed code.
You can then embed your custom player on VideoSift!
I suppose they will eventually find that bug, but who knows. I just now got this to work for my post that had died: http://www.videosift.com/video/King-Crimson-Easy-Money-live-1973
1. Create a playlist with the video(s)
2. Make a "custom player" for that playlist, which provides its own embed code.
You can then embed your custom player on VideoSift!
I suppose they will eventually find that bug, but who knows. I just now got this to work for my post that had died: http://www.videosift.com/video/King-Crimson-Easy-Money-live-1973
[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".
But yeah, this is a big gray area I think.
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...