Comments for "No More Region *Blocked Crap!" Talk at VideoSift.com

By Sarzy

Sarzy (http://sarzy.videosift.com) — Mon, 19 May 2008 23:16:09 -0700

I just tried this on a couple of videos and can confirm that it's working okay. I'd still prefer that region-blocked stuff stay off the sift altogether, but I suppose given the increasing amount of content that's being stupidly blocked, this was inevitable.

By Arsenault185

Arsenault185 (http://www.videosift.com/member/Arsenault185) — Mon, 19 May 2008 23:45:22 -0700

I want to bear your children.

By dystopianfuturetoday

dystopianfuturetoday (http://www.videosift.com/member/dystopianfuturetoday) — Tue, 20 May 2008 00:04:38 -0700

I want to child your bears.

By maatc

maatc (http://maatc.videosift.com) — Tue, 20 May 2008 00:15:56 -0700

Cool, lets see how it works out.

It might be a good idea to add where in the world you can´t see a clip when you invoke * blocked.

Only downside of this seems to me that if I decide to filter out "blocked" content I will filter out all, and not just the ones that are blocked in my region.

By choggie

choggie (http://www.videosift.com/member/choggie) — Tue, 20 May 2008 01:03:58 -0700

bear rugs naked, with children a bit older than pre-teen...

By choggie

choggie (http://www.videosift.com/member/choggie) — Tue, 20 May 2008 01:04:41 -0700

fur pajamas
cognac
nitrous oxide

By lucky760

lucky760 (http://lucky760.videosift.com) — Tue, 20 May 2008 08:27:30 -0700

On the advanced search form you can now filter blocked videos as you can long and nsfw vids.

By gwiz665

gwiz665 (http://gwiz665.videosift.com) — Tue, 20 May 2008 16:14:54 -0700

Well done, old chap. Spiffing good move.

By Fedquip

Fedquip (http://fedquip.videosift.com) — Tue, 20 May 2008 19:35:46 -0700

no need to nitpick here, as I like the new *blocked idea...but

Should we be encouraging a "swap"

I only say this because generally the Region blocked video will come from a direct source, if it is later swapped out for a YouTube version, there is a good chance the youtube version will simply get pulled later, thus leaving us with a dead video.

Perhaps just encouraging users to post alternatives within the comment section and encouraging the video submitter to put a link to the alternative within the description will fix this...or something along those lines... you'know what I mean...bueller?

By youdiejoe

youdiejoe (http://youdiejoe.videosift.com) — Wed, 21 May 2008 10:03:01 -0700

>> ^Fedquip:
no need to nitpick here, as I like the new blocked idea...but

Should we be encouraging a "swap"

I only say this because generally the Region blocked video will come from a direct source, if it is later swapped out for a YouTube version, there is a good chance the youtube version will simply get pulled later, thus leaving us with a dead video.

Perhaps just encouraging users to post alternatives within the comment section and encouraging the video submitter to put a link to the alternative within the description will fix this...or something along those lines... you'know what I mean...bueller?

Good idea about posting an alternate source without it being the embed. I for one will add an alt link where needed (if available) for my blocked vids.

By youdiejoe

youdiejoe (http://youdiejoe.videosift.com) — Wed, 21 May 2008 10:08:58 -0700

and a *quality job by Lucky!

By siftbot

siftbot (http://siftbot.videosift.com) — Wed, 21 May 2008 10:08:58 -0700

Awarding lucky760 with one star point for this contribution to Sift Talk - declared quality by youdiejoe.

By blankfist

blankfist (http://blankfist.videosift.com) — Wed, 21 May 2008 10:37:53 -0700

Cool. Thanks for that, Lucky! That's a damn fine solution to a problem that never affects me.

By oxdottir

oxdottir (http://www.videosift.com/member/oxdottir) — Wed, 21 May 2008 13:01:53 -0700

I'm so happy about this. Thank you.

By ant

ant (http://www.videosift.com/member/ant) — Wed, 21 May 2008 15:44:11 -0700

>> ^Sarzy:
I just tried this on a couple of videos and can confirm that it's working okay. I'd still prefer that region-blocked stuff stay off the sift altogether, but I suppose given the increasing amount of content that's being stupidly blocked, this was inevitable.

Then, how will we know which videos that don't have region block? Also, we would lose a lot of good videos.

By blankfist

blankfist (http://blankfist.videosift.com) — Wed, 21 May 2008 15:53:05 -0700

^Yeah! Stop hating, Sarzy!

By Farhad2000

Farhad2000 (http://farhad.videosift.com) — Thu, 22 May 2008 05:01:08 -0700

I noticed since all the net traffic from Kuwait gets reverted back from the US I can actually watch Comedy Central sifts! But not the ones from other providers. Very weird.

By schmawy

schmawy (http://schmawy.videosift.com) — Thu, 22 May 2008 08:30:20 -0700

Little smoke comin' out of Sifty's ears over here...does not compute.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Dog-Years-2004