#FML: YouTube Unavailable?
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Remember when things were free on the Internet? Some of you may not. Still, I have grown accustomed to ads and having to wait to see things I’d like to see here and there. Seems like any form of popular media has ads a plenty before it. I have accepted that this is the way things will need to be for people to keep giving us the content we so desperately crave. Still, there are issues on the Internet that I doubt I will ever become used to. The main one of which currently is the inability to watch YouTube on anything but a laptop or a desktop. Sure you say there are things you can watch on your phone or tablet, still some of the most popular searches turn up with nothing that you are looking for. Even though you know it’s there. I just dealt with it as I went. We as a market tend to just accept any new legislation put upon us from the net gods.
You see my final straw came when YouTube allowed its content to stream on X-box live. I love the fact that I can now waste even more of my time on X-box but I found myself once again running into the inability to access certain media, be that music video’s or popular clips from revered sites. They have even taken it to the level of not allowing the embedded video on Facebook to be played without going to the actual YouTube page it came from. If artists want their videos to be seen, to share them with the world, and gain the popularity these creations will garner them, then why is it that the most accessible items in your day to day life are inaccessible?
It goes contrary to all reason when you don’t allow videos to be played on tablets, phones, or now the X-box. Everyone these days seems to have a smart phone and with that comes the ability to stream live videos in the palm of your hand. Yet when you suddenly want to show your friends, as they patiently wait for you to pull up this new find you came across, you find yourself vid blocked because you are on your phone. You pull out your tablet expecting different results... wait...YouTube views it as a mobile device as well. Fucked again! Well you’ll just have to wait till you get home because they just added YouTube to X-box. Again you are restricted. More frustrated now than ever you hop on Facebook to check that link you were sent and you are commanded to visit the original video post. This time you are just fed up. Sad and weary that you had to jump through so many hoops just to see a music video.
This is why media is always so far behind technology. You may recall the shit storm surrounding pirated music back in the day. It’s still illegal of course, but no one cares anymore because after some 10 years the music industry has finally gotten on board with the fact that everyone uses digital copies of everything. The Movie Industry only recently started including a digital copy of there movies because the only people that want a DVD are collectors. To be able to handle something in a tangible way. The rest of use are fine to declutter our life as much as possible. This is why Netflix, Hulu, Pandora, Last FM, and YouTube are all so very successful. Because they addressed the advancement of technology and allowed their media to stream live without the need of a player.
So why the step backwards YouTube? What gives? You were way ahead of your game for years allowing the upload of any kind of content and showing the worlds music videos before anyone else. MTV never had a chance, especially after they stopped playing music. See people know their audience too. So well right now, that video’s are usually only released online for streaming. As they grow, so to do increasingly annoying ads and interjections in the form of pop-ups. We allowed it. May we please not have to choose between our streaming devices. Allow all content posted on your pages to be just as easy to access on my phone as it is on a computer. Allow us to enjoy the same media no matter what device we hold in our hands. When we download a YouTube app we should be able to access all that YouTube has to offer. Not just the limited videos allowed to each device. Honestly, I don’t even understand why they would limit the mobile content.
I do realize that in a general sense it is the artists themselves or the companies that represent them that block the ability of their video’s to be shown on all devices.
To this I implore all artists, creators, and collaborators to allow access to all your media. Why else would you put it on a video sharing site if not to share it. We the audience are not your enemy. We are the creatures that crave your creations. Limiting our ability to consume will only make us hunger for something we can catch easily. Sadly, with the attention span that this world has adopted waiting to see your video when I get around a device that will allow it... well it will most presumably be forgotten by the time I make it there. We are what keeps your art in the lime light, I suggest a new form of attack. You want to go viral. Be it bad or good the public will make you famous. It’s up to you the creator, to allow us to pull you up to heights you never dreamed you could go. We are the fuel that burns the fires of relevance and all you have to do is provide the drive. Bring us your best and we’ll project it across the world. Bring us your worst and well show you just why you need to try harder to be better. We are the reason any of you are famous. Start taking us, the Internet audience into the equation. Allow us to be able to share you with anyone and everyone all the time. It’s the wave of the future my friends either get on board or get sucked back out to sea and die in the under toe of underwhelming restricted content.
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