Whether you’re a YouTube content producer, or someone who likes to create videos to be distributed on social networking sites, there are some tips you must keep in mind. Failure to do so can jeopardize your ability to publish your own works in the future, and could lead to legal action.
Inside this article:
- Legally using music
- To license or not to license
- Watch your mouth
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With the rising demand for blogs on PersonalLog, such as the new blogs started up recently (including A Blog Title and Nikola’s Muzik), I’m starting to see posts on virtually every topic, whether it’s gaming, other sites, life, politics, or music. All of this means more stress on the infrastructure itself, which is why I’m starting to integrate services like ImageShack and YouTube into the software.
Recently, I’ve enabled PersonalLog-network-wide features, such as ImageShack integration in the Write Post page, easy insertion of videos from the top video sharing sites (including YouTube, Dailymotion, Blip.tv, MyspaceTV, and so on), and added a few optional plugins including NoIE (which shows a warning to Internet Explorer users and helps them move to Firefox), Counterize II (which tracks site visitors and details about them in real time), and a FeedBurner redirection plugin. These and more are being installed, adapted, and perfected every day.
The first two features that I’ve mentioned, ImageShack integration and video embedding, will help people improve their content while not placing any additional burdens on the PersonalLog server. By encouraging people to upload pictures and graphics to ImageShack, I am indirectly causing them to use more graphics, which improves the experience for the visitors. By encouraging and making it easy to embed videos, I am indirectly influencing them to use and incorporate more videos, thus attracting user interaction. At the same time, the videos aren’t hosted on PersonalLog and won’t drive up the bandwidth consumption.
For the ImageShack integration, you can take a look at some screenshots or a video tutorial. For the video embedding, read this post at PersonalLog.
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How to download YouTube videos without installing any software, even when the entire YouTube domain is blocked
There is a simple process, one which results in a downloadable video file. Every step of the way, if you find that you can access the video you want, there is no need to complete the process unless you want to actually download a video that you can store and keep on your own (or school/corporate) computer.
Here is a scenario in which you might want to follow this guide:
You are on a corporate network which blocks YouTube and all of its subdomains. Any time that you attempt to access it, you receive a warning screen.
You cannot use proxies because anoonymizers have been blocked as well.
You know the URL of the video you want to watch or download.
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