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If Your Website Has Videos, Then You’re Crazy Not To Be Embedding Them From YouTube
By Ryan Van Etten on 12/08/2010
8 Advantages To Embedding Videos From YouTube OR Vimeo—as opposed to streaming from your own host in a custom player 1. No bandwidth strain or maintenance issues. 2. Visitors get player controls that they’re already used to. 3. Shareability. 4. It works. Everywhere. Always. (plays on iPhone etc.) 5. Easy as f*** to implement (copy [...]
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Music Blogging Throwdown—Evading DMCA Takedowns
By Ryan Van Etten on 02/11/2010
Dubbed musicblogocide2k10 Google deleted at least six known music blogs from its Blogger platform. Google posted an official response highlighting their current procedures for handling DMCA complaints that were last updated last summer—Google implies that they warn offending bloggers but cite difficulty contacting offenders in the past. They also include the link for filing a DMCA counter claim.
Posted in Activism, Discussion, Editorial, Infoculture, Media/Journalism, Music, News | Tagged backup, bandcamp, blog shutdowns, blogger, bloggers, blogging, blogspot, change, copyright law, Creative Commons, digital, DMCA, domains, dreamhost, DRM, EFF, embedding, export, Google, Grooveshark, hosting, how to, import, internet, jamendo, legal, musicblogocide, musicblogocide2k10, platform, posterous, promo code, resources, rights, SoundCloud, squarespace, tips, transfer, transferring, tumblr, widgets, WordPress, writers, YouTube | 2 Responses
