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Blip.TV is about a week away from going offline for good [August 20], and taking all its content with it. If you were planning on archiving any videos, better get started!
Note: if there is a content creator you want to archive, you can get a convenient list of their videos: http://blip.tv/CHANNELNAME?skin=rss&page=1 It will show each episode, along with several direct download links to the video files of various quality. A browser plug-in like DownloadThemAll! will help. Just replace page= with the next page number until you reach the end of the archive.
Blip.TV is (or more accurately was) a curated video hosting service. Content creators were signed to the service, and paid a portion of the ad revenue generated by their videos. Blip was recently purchased by Maker Studios, which is owned by Disney. Creators with content on Blip have been scrambling to re-host their videos elsewhere, often running face-first into Youtube's ContentID system.
Although some creators have the option of transitioning their Blip account into a Maker account, they are well warned to closely read the egregious but not unsurprising for a Disney company terms of service regarding ownership and user of their content:
18. You grant the following license with respect to any and all Content you post or submit to this Site: you hereby expressly grant to Maker a royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive, irrevocable right and license to use, reproduce, adapt, modify, publish, edit, translate, perform, transmit, sell, exploit, sublicense or otherwise distribute and display the Content and any ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques contained therein for any reason and in any manner it chooses, alone or as a part of other works, in any form, medium or technology now known or later developed, without restriction and without compensation of any kind to you, and you waive all moral rights in all such Content. For informational purposes, we note that the uses to which we may put the information or Content you provide include, but are not limited to, reproduction and use in any and all media whether now known or hereafter devised; publication of the Content or a derivative thereof for promotional, marketing and advertising purposes, and use in the development and manufacture of products.
(Score: 2) by GungnirSniper on Thursday August 13 2015, @02:22AM
What's up with companies that buy others just to kill them off? What does Disney get for burning something to the ground?
Something tells me this is a black magick ritual taught to MBA students by Trip Hawkins himself.
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday August 13 2015, @02:25AM
I think Maker Studios bought them to try to make money, but quickly got knocked out by the YouTube juggernaut.
The move into YouTube channel monetization is telling. There's a lot of scumbags exploiting that broken system.
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(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 13 2015, @02:29AM
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 13 2015, @04:25PM
What does Disney get for burning something to the ground? Something tells me this is a black magick ritual taught to MBA students by Trip Hawkins himself.
I think the term is a "monopoly". It's the same thing Standard Oil did with selling gas at a loss, or why when a municipality sets up an internet connection the ISPs suddenly coincidentally offer much better packages for much cheaper.
Making numbers up, if Disney spends $10M to kill a competitor, but that lets them raise prices and decrease costs (and quality) to earn $15M more, then they just earned $5M.
(I'm so tempted to go into a economic and political rant here... but I won't...)