Semi OT - MGoVideo deleted
I know there's a lot of people on here who watched Thorin's videos, just relaying the bad news.
YouTube terminated the mgovideo and mgodisney YouTube accounts today. I'll keep uploading but that's more than 1500 videos lost.
— mgovideo (@mgovideo) April 30, 2013
Those are Wolverine Historian videos, not MGoVideo.
Is there a site like Daily Motion which could be used?
Blip.tv is another site that can be used to host videos if I'm not mistaken
April 29th, 2013 at 11:08 PM ^
I've tried Daily Motion and blip.tv and they both deleted games I uploaded almost immediately. tudou.com (the Chinese youtube) too.
April 29th, 2013 at 11:13 PM ^
sockshare? They let damn near every video on there. Granted, the video names are some capcha jibberish, but still.
April 30th, 2013 at 10:13 AM ^
gorillavid.in
I watch all my tv shows on there.
Wow...that's really rough for all of us. I'm not sure there's any reason to go to youtube now. I guess I need to go back to that antique store and buy that box of VHS tapes of 1990s games. Might be the only way I can watch them now.
I have lurked for a few years and just finally registered to say how much this ruined my week. I have been content to read the great posts on the main page as I typically share the same opinions and don't have anything insightful to add with any post I might make. Torrenting will have to suffice, but I LIVED on mgovideo, especially this BB season. I have relived this season no less than 10 times this april alone.
It was fun while it lasted and I am sad to see it go.
April 29th, 2013 at 10:18 PM ^
April 29th, 2013 at 10:23 PM ^
Oh I know. I wore out the last four games. I was glad I got on in time to watch the SDSU and VCU games before they got taken down since I was travelling to Arizona. Following them this season was one of the most enjoyable seasons of sports teams I follow in my life. (I'm 31)
Only 8?!?!
If I ever become KING OF THE INTERNET like I've planned, I will make them PAY!
April 29th, 2013 at 10:48 PM ^
Do you have the purple gloves yet?
April 29th, 2013 at 11:15 PM ^
We do not recognize false monarchs.
April 29th, 2013 at 10:00 PM ^
April 29th, 2013 at 10:01 PM ^
I will always love you Thorin
Megafrown is still up!
April 29th, 2013 at 10:08 PM ^
Strike one was mgoblue highlights of a 2011-2012 basketball game against Northwestern, strike two an old interview with Mattison and the final blow, yes of course, the infamous Denard Illinois week interview.
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April 29th, 2013 at 10:19 PM ^
This sucks. Are you still tracking torrents?
April 29th, 2013 at 10:22 PM ^
Yeah, the tracker is still up: http://mgovideo.com/tracker.php
April 29th, 2013 at 10:22 PM ^
Okay good - didn't see the tracker link on the front page. I'm a dedicated seeder :)
April 29th, 2013 at 10:38 PM ^
Is there really someone from the Big Ten Conference who's job it is to search the internet and find copyrighted videos? C'mon man! Ugh.
...and FUCK those two patches of hair on the "east" and "west" sides of his head.
April 29th, 2013 at 10:14 PM ^
April 29th, 2013 at 10:16 PM ^
What a bunch of crap. I hate this mentality. Movies, I get. If I want to watch one, I can usually rent it somewhere. With sporting events, once they're over, unless you have recorded it yourself, there is no resource for watching old games other than the Internet. So yeah, they're copyrighted and everything, but if the "owner" company never makes use of the resources, someone should. Fuck, at least create a paid-membership site where I can stream everything if you absolutely feel the need to squeeze every last drop of profit out of these things.
If you put thr Return of the King on youtube, it's going to get taken down but there's a ton of places to find it: itunes, amazon, in stores, etc.
These Michigan videos basically just mean that no one will ever seen those games again. Where else will you ever see non-classic Michigan games? If I was interested to see highlights of Michigan's 49-3 drubbing of MSU back in '03(?), where do I find it? Answer: I won't. It is essentially gone forever, and for what reason? Because a copyright holder didn't like it so he/she/they would rather just sit on it and let no one watch it? Ok guy, thanks.
April 29th, 2013 at 10:20 PM ^
WHAT'S EVEN MORE INCREDIBLE IS HE IS TELLING US FROM HIS FUTURE SELF!!!
April 29th, 2013 at 10:46 PM ^
April 29th, 2013 at 10:52 PM ^
I LOVE and greatly appreciate your work, Thorin. This sucks hard. I loved mgovideo
April 29th, 2013 at 11:14 PM ^
April 29th, 2013 at 11:31 PM ^
NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! This sucks. Loved all the uploads you guys did now I will miss them..:(
April 29th, 2013 at 11:46 PM ^
What's the ETA of the new video your making? I'm looking forward to it.
April 30th, 2013 at 12:05 AM ^
Oops, there goes all of Mello's source video. ;-)
April 30th, 2013 at 12:57 AM ^
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I'm watching it now but who knows when it might go down again?
I love YouTube and I will continue to upload there.
I'm no lawyer, but I think this is one of the few rational posts on this thread.
The law of the land is pretty clear, even if we don't like it. To the poster above who said, "Litigate!" I ask, "Litigate what?"
Even if we feel differently, by law we don't own these broadcasts. In fact there is a disclaimer at the end of every one of them affirming that we don't.
Another unfortunate offshoot of these laws is that it is incumbent on a person or company to protect their intellectual property. If they don't, it becomes part of the public domain. If a content owner could be shown to have known about this and not acted, they could lose their rights to profit from their work.
An interesting counter-example is HBO-Go. Right now on HBO-Go, if you're a subscriber, you can watch tons and tons and tons of content. It isn't free, but there's a lot there that HBO is making available.
What we need is B1G, ESPN/ABC, Michigan and others to get organized and host all this content online. If it seems like that would be expensive, well, that's the point... If there isn't money it it, then a company won't do it. For those of you complaining about the ads on the YouTube pages, how do you think Google/YouTube are making money if not from ads? Without money, the services go away. Even if cloud storage is cheap and efficient, somebody's got to pay for it.
A happy medium would be if content owners could somehow see a small benefit from something like Thorin's work and allow the postings to stand on YouTube as long as they are only used for non-commercial purposes. But copyright law and copyright lawyers make this hard to implement practically.