Yep it’s always a good idea to make backups of things like that…it only takes a second to copy and paste into a note file but it could take forever to re-write those same descriptions if you have a lot of videos that get deleted. And that’s just assuming you’ll remember the basics of what you wrote in the first place lol.

Yeah it really sucks that the algorithms can be off and then it’s a huge hassle or impossible to get un-banned. Plus enough mistakes by the algorithm and your whole account could be wiped out.

There are alternatives out there but YouTube definitely has the largest community by far of all the video sites and so naturally it’s the place most people want to put their videos. Some people prefer to have a small quiet community but most want to have as many people as possible see and have conversations about their videos.

Anyway, good luck with your videos and I hope you don’t have any more problems with rogue algorithms.

I just went ahead and changed the music and did the re-upload thing, but what a hassle.

As for the one commenter asking about the use of dailymotion – nothing compares with YouTube! This may or may not be a good thing though.

Thanks, yes the videos were restored after quite a while though now they have restrictions (like people in some countries can’t watch them) and ads on them. Better than nothing but it’s still crappy lol, all the more reason to listen to music from indie artists though :).

Yeah, I’ve been thinking about hosting some of the videos that are blocked on YouTube elsewhere. Though it would be really nice to keep everything centrally located.

In the long run I’m just going to be more careful about what music I include in videos. No more free advertising for WMG since they want to be dropped from the conversation anyway.

Yeah hopefully some of these big companies will see the light before it’s too late. Forcing videos offline only takes their product out of the conversation. It seems like this will hurt profits in the long run but hey what do I know. Maybe some of the decision makers are just clinging to a world that stopped existing a few years ago lol.

Hopefully the vids get restored but in the meantime I think I’ll take your advice and start saving the info on everything. Thanks for the comment :)

Hopefully we can put vids back at some point… though it means an awful lot of uploading and typing the correct info for each video. I now keep copies of all text on any video removed.. saves time later!

Just don’t give up!

Langsense