What do you hate most about Youtube

[KingdomBlade]

The two biggest problem with YouTube is its copyright system and time limits. The is overbearing and automated making false claims easy to make to difficult to dispute. As for time limits they're fucking stupid. First it was only directors than can post long videos then they took that away and gave it only to partners. Increasing the limit to 15 mins was a good move but still not enough for many gaming videos. Then they started giving unlimited time to regular users and then started taking it away for no reason and no explanation. I can't finish uploading my Earthbound videos because they are all 2 hours in length.

Split them into clips?

 

[Deleted member 473940]

The two biggest problem with YouTube is its copyright system and time limits. The is overbearing and automated making false claims easy to make to difficult to dispute. As for time limits they're fucking stupid. First it was only directors than can post long videos then they took that away and gave it only to partners. Increasing the limit to 15 mins was a good move but still not enough for many gaming videos. Then they started giving unlimited time to regular users and then started taking it away for no reason and no explanation. I can't finish uploading my Earthbound videos because they are all 2 hours in length.

Thats not something to hate really. At some cases its a good thing. You can split it and at times its better organized.

 

[FAST6191]

My only real gripe with it (everything else just seems to be an example of any gripes I have with humankind in general- it is unfortunate but I do not expect everybody to be both insightful and a master film maker or fairly obvious concessions to large parties and technology in general) is that it managed to convince people that "youtube quality" was all that was viable over the internet- sparing a minor technical discussion on streaming video (I argue it could even be abstracted to a container issue although I would agree that would not be ideal) I will mention divx's (as in the codec maker not the original rent a DVD maker) Stage6 site that shut down in 2008.

It has got slightly better in recent years with the shift to H264 and availability of higher resolutions and the like (hopefully to get better if flash can at least be sidelined for the majority of videos- not necessarily HTML5 but something at least) but the damage was already done. Granted few had/have that brilliant recording gear but it did not go unnoticed.

 

[CannonFoddr]

1) Youtube will NOT allow you to see certain videos IF you are not from 'such-&-such' country
A couple of times I've seen 'watch this video' while in work - & when I try I get a message saying something about not avalible in your country. I admit, the only way I can 'get through' my Workplace restrictions is to use a workaround to direct it to a German server, but hell - WHY can't I watch it

2) Youtube won't allow you to Embed some video clips
I've seen posts that have a Youtube embed into it, but when you click on it it say 'Not allowed - watch it on Youtube instead'.

3) Youtubes (actually Sony mainly) refusal of allowing you to use 'clips' of copyrighted music
I've had (& seen) several videos where a clip of a song (FMV usually) was used, yet I've seen that it/they had to be removed due to 'copyright infringements'.... What the Hell ?? it's only a 20sec clip of the song, not the whole bloody thing

I could most probably come up with a couple more - but that's it for the moment

 

[KingdomBlade]

1) Youtube will NOT allow you to see certain videos IF you are not from 'such-&-such' country
A couple of times I've seen 'watch this video' while in work - & when I try I get a message saying something about not avalible in your country. I admit, the only way I can 'get through' my Workplace restrictions is to use a workaround to direct it to a German server, but hell - WHY can't I watch it

2) Youtube won't allow you to Embed some video clips
I've seen posts that have a Youtube embed into it, but when you click on it it say 'Not allowed - watch it on Youtube instead'.

3) Youtubes (actually Sony mainly) refusal of allowing you to use 'clips' of copyrighted music
I've had (& seen) several videos where a clip of a song (FMV usually) was used, yet I've seen that it/they had to be removed due to 'copyright infringements'.... What the Hell ?? it's only a 20sec clip of the song, not the whole bloody thing

I could most probably come up with a couple more - but that's it for the moment

Disabling embedding is the choice of the video owner, not Youtube.

The geographical restrictions are due to the companies, not Youtube.

The music copyright is also due to the companies, not Youtube.

 

[jargus]

The two biggest problem with YouTube is its copyright system and time limits. The is overbearing and automated making false claims easy to make to difficult to dispute. As for time limits they're fucking stupid. First it was only directors than can post long videos then they took that away and gave it only to partners. Increasing the limit to 15 mins was a good move but still not enough for many gaming videos. Then they started giving unlimited time to regular users and then started taking it away for no reason and no explanation. I can't finish uploading my Earthbound videos because they are all 2 hours in length.

Thats not something to hate really. At some cases its a good thing. You can split it and at times its better organized.

It was already split into the 2 hour clips with the assumption that they would be uploaded with the unlimited time however it was taken taken while in the midst of uploading. I've since had to delete the original recordings to make room on my harddrive. Editing them down any further will result in a large loss of quality. The main part of the issue isn't the time limit its that it was lifted and reinstated without any indication as to why it was and wasn't and there's no word from youtube about it. True in some cases it can be more organized however things like speedruns, longplays, cutscenes, and boss rushes become alot harder to create for upload with such a restriction. I'd prefer the size limit thats easy to work with if planning ahead and working with codecs. But such a restrictive time limit only impedes on the possible types of videos that can be uploaded even with careful planning

 

[Ikki]

I LUV EVRYZING ABOUT YOOTUB

THUMPS UP SO HE CAN SEE!!!11!1!1!11

 

[Deleted member 473940]

I LUV EVRYZING ABOUT YOOTUB

THUMPS UP SO HE CAN SEE!!!11!1!1!11

Thats something I dislike about the people on youtube though! lol

 

[AlanJohn]

What I hate the most is that soney blocks 75.2% of all the vids in my country... Even those that have NOTHING to do with soney. And people send my PM's to subscribe to there ugly channel with terrible music...

 

[signz]

What I hate most about youtube?
In one word: youtube

I'm not really a fan of video streaming..

 

[Nobunaga]

Country Blocks and Copyright :/

 

[WolfSpider]

When I see a horrible video that has 1,000,000+ views.

 

[Ikki]

When I see a horrible video that has 1,000,000+ views.

IT'S FRIDAY, FRIDAY

 

[Deleted member 473940]

When I see a horrible video that has 1,000,000+ views.

LOL.
How is that youtubes fault?
users watch those videos

!

 

[.Chris]

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When I see a horrible video that has 1,000,000+ views.

IT'S FRIDAY, FRIDAY

FUN FUN FUN, YEAH!

 

[Dylan]

The comments are just ridiculous. Idiot central. The Justin Bieber stuff was never funny either.

 

[Nujui]

Mostly the DMCA issues and most of the stupid comments you see on videos.

 

[Stephapanda]

Stupid comments (x [# of dislikes] ________, thumbs up if blahblahblah) people fighting about things that are COMPLETELY unrelated to the video in the comments, people that post shit about Justin Bieber on every video (it's not even funny anymore), VEVO, pocodot spam, copyright issues, crappy bands/"artists" begging for subscriptions (it's almost like myspace now)... the list goes on and on.

I wish there were an option to permanently hide all of the comments on videos. People's comments on youtube are probably what I hate the most. There's too much stupidity in those for me to handle.

 

[imshortandrad]

There's not a whole lot I hate about YouTube. If there was anything I was to complain about, it would be the copyright problems that I get.

 

[GameWinner]

WMG, hate copyrights messages -_-
Removes some of the good videos