YouTube - not safe any more
There is a thread on Kawoosh, started last summer, where we were discussing whether or not it was a good idea to be posting music videos to YouTube. Was the exposure something we, as a fandom, could withstand? Was the free hosting worth the very public venue? Would MGM take action against us
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That's the way I've always been, too. I've always said, in every fandom I've ever been in, that if someone in power asked me to take my things down, I would. I've been honored and thrilled that George Lucas and John Wells let me play with their characters, and I'm thrilled that MGM is letting me now. But I think that a large part of that "letting" was in the "keep it out of the general public eye" that fandom has always managed to do. Well, we're not out of the general public's eye any more.
You'd think they'd realize that things like vidding and fanfic only increases interest in the product. In fact, I was brought into SG-1 fandom by reading a fanfic from a particularly talented author, and I've since spent loads of money on the Stargate franchise.
I'm the same way. I was browsing around looking for (of all things) screencaps from the show to prove that someone on deviantArt had used them to make a wallpaper, which is a big against the rules thing there. While I was out looking, I came across WDYG (the predecessor to Kawoosh) and from there, found Chris and Mel's "What If" vid. The rest is, as they say, history... a history which involves several thousands of my dollars spent in the past four years.
And it never would have happened if it hadn't been for vidding. I'd watched the first season and loved it, but without that vid, I don't think I'd have ever come back.
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