This is a relevant story to vidders. Has anyone been following it? Maybe we should all band together and turn ourselves in to some anti-piracy group and get a confirmation that we will not be sued. LOL. Of course you never know how it would go here in the US or in other countries, and the group's statement that they won't go after this man does not ( Read more... )

I used to write a technology blog & still scan the RSS feeds of some of them like a watchful cat. Sometimes I see things that don't exactly fit some communities or would be lost among other content so I created a community to address & collect topics related to social networks, technology hacks and news related to Vidding.  It's called viddersnet

All this ( Read more... )

  Check out the following communities:

veni_vidi_vids  (newsletter focusing on vidding news, copyright issues, technical questions, vid recs, and meta discussions)
vidding (announce your vids and all things happening about vidding in LJ-land and beyond)
vidding_tech  (for your technical questions)
viddingnewbies (new to vidding?)
mac_vidding_101  (for the Mac vidders)
the_reel  (a place to submit your vids for review/ ( Read more... )

**crossposted from my LJ ( Read more... )

The latest convention news, discussions on vidding, technical chat plus developments in copyright laws and torrenting that impact vidders. More here

The latest convention news, discussions on vidding, technical chat plus developments in copyright laws and torrenting that impact vidders. More here

MSNBC ( Read more... )

Judge Orders YouTube to Give All User Histories to Viacom ( Read more... )

A while back, I ended up linking to the same articles over and over again in response to queries about vidding culture and history. So I decided to make a link set that would be short enough for someone to actually read (or skim) all of the links but with enough depth that they could really get their most fundamental questions answered.

I present ( Read more... )

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