Rave/ Rant: YouTube

I have this love/ hate relationship with YouTube (YT).

I love the fact that I can watch movie trailers, music videos and matches of Tekken and other games at my leisure. It also has a massive library to watch from as well because nearly everyone uses YT and uploads stuff as well.

I love how it is easy to upload something on YT and I can share it with a friend that lives in Australia without having to send him a raw file over MSN that takes up most of a night. All this is awesome.

On the other hand I hate YT because of it's limitations. WMG and YT still haven't settled their differences so there are no WMG artists on YT... if there music is uploaded, they get taken down straight away. I actually like some of WMG artists so this is frustrating that these two haven't settled their quarrel yet. On top of that, Universal Music Group is awesome with uploading music videos by why don't they allow embedding. I want to share the latest video on my Myspace but I can't because UMG doesn't allow it. Umm... huh? I am giving you free publicity and sharing your artists music with people who might also get interested in it but you don't want me too? How does that make sense?

Don't get me started how you can't upload your own videos with other people music either. I have beaten that horse before and it still annoys me.

And then we have my main beef with YT. The racists, ignorant and down right stupid people who use it to spew their hateful speech. I read all these comments on videos with people just being plain hateful and they are allowed to be because they are hiding under the anomity of the internet. It's digusting and after awhile I stop reading comments all together. I know this isn't YT's fault BUT it really does dampen the experience.

And finally YT is filled with some seriously silly people who don't know how to rate videos and because of that I refuse to allow them to rate my Tekken match videos anymore. People seem to rate videos for dumb reasons, like their favorite character didn't win, or the camera was shaky or something lame like that. Because of that from here on in, all my Tekken match videos I will disable ratings. I given people a chance to rate matches with my first batch of T6 vids and YT audiences failed miserably. Watch the matches, post your opinions that is all.

Well that was fun to get off my chest.

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