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All that Vevo ever was for me was a quality seal that guarantees that the video from an artist is official, when searching for a song on YouTube - i.e. it had g
by soneca 8y ago
All that Vevo ever was for me was a quality seal that guarantees that the video from an artist is official, when searching for a song on YouTube - i.e. it had good image and sound quality and it was indeed a video clip, not just an upload of the song with the album cover or crappy collage as image.
Never thought about it as a company with ambitions to challenge YouTube.
- leetcrew 8y agoi actually used to avoid vevo because it would usually give you the censored version of popular songs.
- Broken_Hippo 8y agoI came to type the same thing.
- stcredzero 8y agoWhen you get big, you abandon the edge. That's just how it works.
- Larrikin 8y agoVevo posted the official video. Older music videos were made for play on MTV so they were censored and some one else had to edit them. I haven't run across a censored video on Vevo in a while unless I was looking for something old.
- jandrese 8y agoSince when is Vevo a quality seal? I see that mark plastered over 320p videos all the time. I figured it was just the "the ad money is now going to the record company" logo.
- krisdol 8y agoThat's the way I see it. Vevo means I don't get to see lyrics, I get a video with weird intro/outro patters and instead of just the song, I get the censored and shortened radio version of the song, and I get more ads. If vevo took their content off youtube and ran, I would welcome it. Youtube should be more than MediaMegacorp advertising-disguised-as-music.
- danso 8y agoIf Vevo became the place where music labels and acts -- the ones with the massive money-making audiences -- went to, Vevo would be even less tolerant of bootleg/non-official versions existing on a rival site.
- themodelplumber 8y agoThis is why I always add keywords like "lyrics" or "72rpm" to my music searches. Maybe I should just exclude "vevo" though...hmmm...
- seba_dos1 8y agoI thought it's just a brand for YouTube's partnership with record labels.
- rhizome 8y agoYeah, I view it like I do The Orchard and all the other upload/monetization services.
- hiccuphippo 8y agoFor me Vevo meant that the video would probably not play in my country and when it did, I wouldn't be able to play it with mpv and youtube-dl.
- exikyut 8y agoCan you clarify what you mean by this? I have never heard of any YouTube video (mp4/webm) having DRM in it.
- fragmede 8y agoGeoIP-based blocking, plus some techniques to detect VPN users, end up being fairly (but not 100%) effective at detecting foreign users. There's no need for DRM in the video file if you prevent most people from accessing it in the first place.
- exikyut 8y ago:( Okay, what about this: try youtube-dl on the infinitely-free 600M RAM instance you get in GCE. Upload bandwidth (what you'll use to d/l video from instance) is 1GB/mo max, but outbound to Google services is free, so transfer the videos out through gdrive.