Anne, I undertand your frustration, but I assure you we are not doing this to inflate numbers. We are just trying to create a good service. I agree that this is serious business, but I think that our intent is in line with video bloggers; to help people communicate.
Maybe these will help clear things up a bit: http://veoh.com/videoDetails.html?v=e45222y74PgXDw http://veoh.com/videoDetails.html?v=e53117YBnkkPyp We should have spent time in this group, but unfortunately we have been understaffed, and time just got away from us. I am here now, and I am listening to you. I want to do whatever it takes to make things right. I hope that you take me up on that offer. What can I do to make things right? Dmitry --- In [email protected], "Anne Walk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Dmitry, > > Thankyou for responding to the group. > > I have a few questions and comments about this whole situation. > > I simply cannot see how taking video without the maker's knowledge or > consent, creating a "series" with it, linking back to your own site, using > no attribution whatsoever and implicating them as members of your community > is a compelling service for video producers. > > I think it is, however, a compelling service to Veoh as it gives an > artificial inflation of your numbers which, I'm sure, is quite helpful when > looking for VC funding for your company. > > In your terms of service, you spell out your own copyright for the site. How > would you feel about a company that decided it wanted to help you avoid the > costs of running your site by sucking the content out of it and hosting it > on their own site without your knowledge or consent. They could then drive > your traffic to them, thereby saving you the costs associated with > bandwidth. I'm sure that you wouldn't perceive it as helpful though, would > you? > > If you truly thought that what you were doing was helpful, you might have > come in here before now and told us what a marvelous job you were doing > helping us all and encouraging us to come claim our feeds. Instead, we find > out accidentally and now you are here to tell us that it's for our own good > and that you are helping us. Not cool. Not legal. Not helpful. > > Sorry if this sounds harsh but this is serious business. > > On 4/7/06, dmitry_veoh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Thank you for approving me for this group. > > > > I wanted all of you to know that I am reading these messages and hear > > you loud and clear. > > > > It is not our intention to steal anyone's content. We are simply > > trying to create a compelling service for video producers of all > > kinds, with a big focus on enabling video bloggers to be free of > > restrictions to broadcast. In fact, we did consider simply creating a > > site where we would link to videoblogs, but felt that this may cause > > you to experience significant costs. The reason we transcode the > > content is to offload those costs from you to us. Maybe this is not > > the right thing to do. We are open to your comments, and will obey > > your wishes. > > > > Please forgive us if you are one of the people that feel that we have > > gone about this the wrong way, we will make changes to accommodate > > your preferences. We did not mean to infringe on anyone's rights, we > > simply tried to make it simple for people to find your videos in a > > single place. This is an evolutionary process, and we are working on > > refining it. We would greatly appreciate your help in making Veoh a > > great citizen of the video blogging world. > > > > For those of you that will be attending VloggerCon 2006, you will have > > a chance to meet a few of us there, as we are going to be sponsoring > > the event, and will throw a party afterwards. > > > > I encourage you to give us the benefit of the doubt that we are the > > good guys. We will do ANYTHING to prove that to you, really. > > > > I will personally make sure that anyone that wants their feed off of > > our system gets a quick response to their wishes. > > > > Dmitry Shapiro > > CEO > > Veoh Networks, Inc. > > 619-602-3305 cell > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Anne Walk > http://loadedpun.com > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
