One of the things I'm always struck by whenever I go back to the VidUKon 2008 vids is how difficult it is to find live copies of them, streaming or otherwise. It looks like it's the same with these vids from 2009. Rememebr when the BAM vid vault was going to be the next big thing? Youtube's still around from that period, but I think everything else has gone. I wonder how many vidders who were around at the time have vanished almost completely from the internet, along with their vids?
YES! It's ironic that as a community we've been so (rightly in a lot of cases!) wary of YouTube when it's one of the places that older vids have stayed online, just because of the sheer number of vids uploaded there meaning that some of them were bound to survive.
I've also noticed that fewer people these days offer downloads of their vids. I think the reasons are understandable - streaming is better than it used to be, and so many places take our downloads down - but I think it's dangerous to rely on streaming platforms to keep our stuff for us, even if sometimes it does work out!
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YES! It's ironic that as a community we've been so (rightly in a lot of cases!) wary of YouTube when it's one of the places that older vids have stayed online, just because of the sheer number of vids uploaded there meaning that some of them were bound to survive.
I've also noticed that fewer people these days offer downloads of their vids. I think the reasons are understandable - streaming is better than it used to be, and so many places take our downloads down - but I think it's dangerous to rely on streaming platforms to keep our stuff for us, even if sometimes it does work out!