hey there,
i still got an old youtube account with director rights. that means there is no timelimit for uploaded videos. some days ago i thought about giving some credit to players and encoders and this site as well after i shut down my own site. so i started uploading your movies to youtube. i considered to follow all rules which are written on each movie site which say:
Republication of movies from this site is only allowed under the following conditions:
Video and audio content must not be changed (including the pointers to this site),
The movies must be prominently labeled as tool-assisted speedruns,
The actual player(s) (always shown at this site) must be properly credited.
upthorn and comicalflop both wrote me messages that i should make a topic here about that. so here i am. maybe i start from the beginning.
some of you may know me from speedruns.net. i was the webmaster over there some days ago. i had uploaded many movies of some members which gave me the permission to encode and publish their movies. later i had to close the site because of some private issues. my main objective was not the competition but giving something back to the tool-assisted speedrun community which i was very interested in from the beginning on.
so the day came that i got some more free time and i found my old youtube account and the channel was still visited pretty well for not uploading such a long period. so i tried to find your rules as mentioned before and i deleted all links to my site from the channel and gave proper credit to players encoders and the site itself. i started uploading the long movies which are splitted in several parts on youtube most times. then i got 2 messages from upthorn and comicalflop so here i am.
i have no intention to quarrel over rules or permissions because i think i did nothing wrong when following all rules which are set. but i think you will notice that its not necessary to do so because i do not want anything nor i get anything. its just that i always wanted to have everything in 1 account and it was not possible because of many reasons. on the one hand someone stopped uploading after a few videos or another one got a timelimit and had to split the movies and so on.
so maybe you will see that it is not necessary to talk about the permission because you can only win with more promotion for your runs and your site.
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My only concern is that it should always be explicitly stated that it isn't a normal play, and it should have some direction to understanding more about that (preferably a link to this site). I felt that speedruns.net lacked that approach, so I never gave it attention.
However, it's good to have someone willing to support TASes, so good luck with the uploads!
Obviously I think it would be good to be able to have all our published TASes viewable in full on youtube. As long as credit is given, the concept of TAS is explained, and none of the TAS authors or encoders object to you putting them up on your account, I am for it.
How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.
Obviously I think it would be good to be able to have all our published TASes viewable in full on youtube. As long as credit is given, the concept of TAS is explained, and none of the TAS authors or encoders object to you putting them up on your account, I am for it.
Agreed with this.
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Edit: I think I understand now: It's my avatar, isn't it? It makes me look angry.
Only thing I can think of is if you get enough views to warrant sponsorship, and the movie author does as well, they might ask you to take it down.
Also, just to let you know, your upload of my Dr. Mario video is pretty screwed up.
Yeah there is an official YT acc.
But with the 10 minute limitation.
With an Directors acc. you can upload videos
up to 5 hours!!!
This would be the best for TASVideos imo.
