Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Youtube has company

10.03.09

These sites have been around for a few years now and are rip offs of the youtube platform, but unlike youtube they do not care about copyright, these sites are coming from china and from behind that red curtain or socialist capitalism come websites that will host full films and tv shows mainly in english.

the main three i have found are.
56.com
youku.com
tudou.com

a useful website for ripping down the vids is clipnabber.com or kisstudou.com which is focused on the chinese website of the simular name.

There was a large panic amoung some youtubers about a year ago when for a time www.livevideo.com came to fame, I myself set up an account but the views for videos is dismal, as the time the chatter was that livevideo would take on the big guns youtube, they have some nice features and the sound is ment to be better quality, i myself did not notice any difference. but since that time the hub bub has died and so has the danger from livevideo. I only recently discovered that the site streams soft porn, this may be one of the reasons why viewer number of videos are down as the clients to the site are there to see live strip shows etc, but livevideo could also be suffering because big names would not want to get associated with smut, sexual suggestion is fine but all out smut frightens away investors and big companies, youtube has kept its content smut free as much as is possible and closes accounts of offenders, which i thing is a good thing as it keeps the site from getting swamped with endless porno clips.
There are numerous video hosting sites but youtube is still No. 1. but the amount of user content vids has fallen in recent times, some people are not vlogging as much as they use to, it could be a shift in trend or I need new subscriptions.

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