sure i have a question.
do you look at any of the licenses that people post their videos under?
if you are making any money from the site and that money comes as a result of videos you posted that say have a CC no commercial derivs license, aren't you violating that license?
Good Question, let me take a shot at answering:
1. I am not making any money from the site overall. On the other hand, I am paying around $100-$200 per month for the bandwidth and the dedicated hosting from my pocket every month. The Ad payout is pretty bad. In fact, that's the reason I put had to put out a donations page recently. I am sure Don would agree on how tough it can get to run a free community site which gets good traffic and requires dedicated hosting.
2. The videos on SecurityTube can be categorized into 3 categories:
a. Videos we host on our servers which were either created by me or our members. We have full permissions to embed these.
b. Videos hosted on Vimeo or YouTube - I always check the description to make sure that the author has not forbidden embedding on other sites or explicitly mentioned a license I am violating. In almost all cases where authors do not want to re-distribute, they make the videos private or explicitly mention so in the description. Also, I generally try to find the original author;s site and give a linkback, so he knows we have added this video.
c. Videos on other sites such as Milw0rm which are re-posted on our site - I have always written to the site authors from whose pages I have ripped videos and reposted.
Of course, there is always a possibility of someone not wanting his video on SecurityTube, in which case he can write to us and we will take it down. My email address has been made available at the bottom of every video we have borrowed from other sources.
Hope this answers your questions.
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