Vidshow Discussion Post: 2009 Retrospective

[cosmic_llin]

 

Welcome to the discussion post for the 2009 Retrospective vidshow, curated by such heights!

This is a new thing we’re trying - we love talking about the vidshows at the con itself, but we think there’s scope for further discussion here on Dreamwidth, where folks who weren’t able to attend the con can get involved too. Anyone who’s interested is welcome to watch the show and join in! We’ll be running these posts roughly once a month, initially featuring shows from VidUKon 2019.

You can see the list of vids and their descriptions here - scroll down and click on the show title in blue. If you’re struggling to find any vids from the show, please drop me a line and I’ll see what I can do to help!

Comments

[brokenmnemonic]

I also noticed that if you look at a lot of the older vids where things like the LJ posts have never been updated, the download links were often sendspace/megaupload, neither of which seem to be used much at all. Vidding feels really transient in some ways...

[cosmic_llin]

Yeah, Megaupload was THE place to keep your vids for a while but IIRC that all dramatically collapsed when they had a huge copyright crackdown right in the middle of Festivids, meaning that there was a mad scramble to get all the vids back up so that their recipients could see them. And then the site was shut down entirely shortly afterwards.

I think one reason a lot of people turn to YouTube these days is that there's SO much on there that if your vid doesn't immediately get copyright flagged, there's a higher chance that it'll just fly under the radar due to the sheer volume of stuff.

That said, I think there's also a much greater openness towards vids generally now than there was ten years ago. Showrunners and cast members share them approvingly, and most record companies are much more relaxed about folks using their music as long as they can get appropriate credit (and in some cases monetisation.)