What do I want on YTMND
Created on: April 10th, 2014
I know, I know, I am a lazy pussy
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I really respect the effort and intent of your efforts with this site. But ultimately, I disagree with auto connecting youtube to the ytmnd site creator.
1. Doing this might risk further legal/copyright liability towards Max and the whole site. Suppose the youtube in question was a direct DVD/Blu Ray rip? If the content creators happened to be a major studio, distribution network or production company, then that alone could earn Max some serious trouble. They would likely have the resources to pursue litigation against him. As they have done in the past. Besides, such a DVD rip would even violate youtube policies. Perhaps someone from youtube might also pursue something against him.
2. Aside from legal issues, I think this would also discourage creativity for some. Most of the movie cuts/rips that make it to ytmnd have some modification to it. There are some which do not, but I do not think it makes sense to increase this number. Besides, if a clip is not modified, then it is less likely it would be thought of as satire in regards to legal issues.
3. This would also place a great strain on server resources. Video conversions are processor and ram intensive. Especially if the desired clip size is something ridiculous like 10 minutes long. Just imagine if 100 people were doing this at once. I almost guarantee that all of ytmnd would slow down drastically, if not simply fail to deliver pages entirely.
4. The great thing with users currently downloading the clips on to their own computers and doing their own conversions is that whatever they end up creating will not be able to make it to the server without the resulting file be smaller than the stated maximum file size per upload. With a server side conversion, there is no guaranteed easy way to detect how big the resulting file size will be until the animated gif is fully generated, unless one really shops around for such a converter.
1. Doing this might risk further legal/copyright liability towards Max and the whole site. Suppose the youtube in question was a direct DVD/Blu Ray rip? If the content creators happened to be a major studio, distribution network or production company, then that alone could earn Max some serious trouble. They would likely have the resources to pursue litigation against him. As they have done in the past. Besides, such a DVD rip would even violate youtube policies. Perhaps someone from youtube might also pursue something against him.
2. Aside from legal issues, I think this would also discourage creativity for some. Most of the movie cuts/rips that make it to ytmnd have some modification to it. There are some which do not, but I do not think it makes sense to increase this number. Besides, if a clip is not modified, then it is less likely it would be thought of as satire in regards to legal issues.
3. This would also place a great strain on server resources. Video conversions are processor and ram intensive. Especially if the desired clip size is something ridiculous like 10 minutes long. Just imagine if 100 people were doing this at once. I almost guarantee that all of ytmnd would slow down drastically, if not simply fail to deliver pages entirely.
4. The great thing with users currently downloading the clips on to their own computers and doing their own conversions is that whatever they end up creating will not be able to make it to the server without the resulting file be smaller than the stated maximum file size per upload. With a server side conversion, there is no guaranteed easy way to detect how big the resulting file size will be until the animated gif is fully generated, unless one really shops around for such a converter.
Well, you're right, that's an utopia feature. But we all can dream.. Almost all my previous YTMNDs were direct rips from Youtube videos. Now I'm using Opera with plugins to make it, but it takes some effort to download, convert, make GIF, optimize, etc. So I somehow hoped for that feature. Yes, alterations are very good things, and they make humor much more complex, and therefore, funnier. But sometimes what all I need - is just a little piece of video, and I consider it pretty funny to share it on YTMND.
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