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Vimeo's guidelines on commercial and gaming videos are clear. The rules have always been enforced, regardless of impressions people may be trying to give that t

• kevingadd 15y ago
  This is simply not true. My vimeo account is 'white-listed' because I am a game developer which allows me to upload game development footage and trailers. A vimeo support tech offered this to me early on in response to my complaints about my videos being erroneously flagged. The behavior discussed in the original post is new (ish).
• reissbaker 15y ago
  It's true that the commercial and gaming guidelines are clear -- but the gaming guidelines have until now been interpreted (and applied by Vimeo) as relating to fan-made playthroughs of games, not videos uploaded by independent game makers of what they're working on. Applying those rules to the game creators is the recent decision. [Edit:] Since this wasn't made clear by the linked article, Alec Holowka (Infinite Ammo, from the takedown screenshot) is an award-winning independent game developer, which is why people are upset.
  • brackin 15y ago
    It's not clear and this makes me change my view.
• matthew-wegner 15y ago
  Take this just-posted PBS segment on video games: http://vimeo.com/31155800 http://vimeo.com/31155800 . PBS didn't make the games shown in the clip; should Vimeo block it? And the recent trigger here was the 586 games submitted to the Independent Games Festival (http://www.igf.com/php-bin/entries2012.php http://www.igf.com/php-bin/entries2012.php). Many entrants used Vimeo to host their trailers. Every single game trailer was created and uploaded by the game creators, yet many accounts were removed. I understand Vimeo's position on people posting footage of their WoW raids, Counter-Strike matches, and so on, but blocking indie game devs from posting their own trailers and videos? This behavior is incongruent with their stated desire to support creators. And for what? Because they work in games and not films (or indeed, even films about games: http://vimeo.com/indiegame http://vimeo.com/indiegame)?
  • baddox 15y ago
    Perhaps they realize that game content poses a legal threat, so they ban all game content rather than individually try to verify the ownership of each video.
    • wnight 15y ago
      Videos of game content pose as much of a (real) legal threat as wearing Nike shoes while having your picture taken. If you don't intend people be able to screenshot the work, don't sell it on a computer. Perhaps in the days of Quake 1 this wasn't expected, but it is now.
• windsurfer 15y ago
  Kind of strange how you can't put a gameplay video up of a game you created, though.
  • wnight 15y ago
    This is because there's no law against it. This is caused by the ease of rogue DMCA takedowns. Any type of content that tends to get noticed gets banned just to avoid the nuisance. Which is exactly what many people predicted non-court based takedowns would lead to - absolutely no standards.
• wnight 15y ago
  > Every user who has uploaded a video has seen the guidelines and agreed to them. Sure. You mean you have to click through them to post. Yeah yeah. Click, click, click. Obviously many who use the site didn't see the guidelines and don't agree with them. Click-through terms-of-service rarely get read. > The focus at Vimeo on creator-contributed content and community are what has likely kept it from becoming the YouTube comment and content cesspool that is mocked the world over. This is creator-contributed content. As much as if I took a video of a lego creation. The legos are bought, and I'm using them to make a video. Also, the Windows (tm) desktop is just as (un)protected as game content and yet I see it in much Vimeo videos. Surely they care as much about any copyrights, regardless of the context.
• jinushaun 15y ago
  Exactly. Vimeo is not a wannabe YouTube--it can't be. YouTube already won the video war. So instead they focus on high quality creative content and that's their niche.