[prinz]

 I don't know how many of you guys have gone to this site to view video's of some of the lovely ladies we admire.  They are taking down a lot of content of late... sigh...
   

[pedonbio]

Yet another reason to be grateful that the upload limit here has gone up.

[Hark]

I noticed this too, but I had thought it was due to the original poster violating the DM's rules, or they asked/told them to take it down.  I've lost a few good ones to digital heaven.  lol

[Palomine]

Provided that the content abides by the Owner's rules, users are welcome to upload/attach their favorite clips here for posterity/safe-keeping... plenty of short clips will fit under the new 3MB limt (be sure to save the best quality version from DM... most DL tools allow for DLing various resolutions). If the clip is larger than 3MB, you can UL it to a filehost (Sendspace is great, but there's also Mediafire, Dep0sitfiles, etc...) and then UL the link in a post here (and make/attach a still-frame cap for reference).

If something's particularly good (and OK per the rules) it'd be a shame to see it vanish from online.

[Ronald Ray Gun]

This makes me sad. Lots of favorite videos gone.

[TheZookie007]

The moral of the story is, if you see something good, be sure and download it first before telling anyone else about it, just in case it disappears.

Also, get yourself a nice pair of big...hard drives.

[Palomine]

Beginning on March 23rd, Google will not allow any images or video that it considers sexually explicit on blogspot.  If Google finds any content on its blogs that are sexually explicit, it will privatize the blog, removing it from public view.  

We are therefore looking for a new home.

Any suggestions?

I dunno if Dailymotion is making a concerted push to get rid of adult content or if the recently vanishing clips are just part of the usual churning that happens over time at all file/content hosts.

However, Eliza's info is accurate: https://support.google.com/blogger/answer/6170671?p=policy_update&rd=1 and so, since all such blogs are going to be removed or automatically converted to "private", it's going to make zillions of great, long-running, carefully curated blogs unavailable to the public.

[TheZookie007]

Moral of the story: if you are serious about blogging, buy your own domain name, and pay for your own webhosting. Don't rely upon Tumblr or Blogspot to host your stuff, because they can pull the plug at any time and take all your content with it and not even wipe your tears when they're done.

Also, in this day and age, why would you have the one-and-only copy of your content be on Blogspot, knowing full well that Google could go crazy and pull a stunt like this?

[Palomine]

Apparently google changed its mind about prohibiting adult content on blogger, though I haven't read the details/fine print of the thing just yet:

From Gizmodo:

Earlier this week, Google took a strangely conservative take on scrubbing porn from its blogging platform, Blogger. It was an especially weird move considering it use to let members mark websites as "adult" and even mentioned that limiting such rules would hamper "freedom of expression." Now, Google is backtracking after hearing overwhelming negative feedback from users. Google will still take a hard stance on commercial porn on Blogger, but you can still post all the porny porn your porn-filled heart desires. Don't tread on my porn. [Google]

From ABC News:

Apparently Google bloggers like to post porn. A lot.

Just three days after saying sexually explicit material would be banned from public Blogger forum sites, Google is backing down. Faced with "a ton of feedback," Google said Friday that it instead will "step up enforcement" against commercial and illegal porn.

Google spokeswoman Katie Watson said the company does not disclose how many Blogger users it has nor how many of them would have been affected by the policy change.

On Tuesday, Google warned Bloggers that effective March 23 any site hosting nude pictures would be switched to private mode — only available to the authors and invited viewers. That ban came the same day that social forum and news site Reddit said it would remove explicit photos, videos and links if the person pictured hadn't consented to the image being posted.

In an online post Friday, Google's Blogger said longtime users thought it was unfair to suddenly change the policy. The company also was swayed by users who say posting sexually explicit content is part of expressing their identities.

Sexually explicit content on Blogger will still be marked by an "adult content" warning. And Google's Blogger policy does not allow users to post nudes or sexually explicit images of someone else without that person's consent.

Mountain View, California-based Google Inc. bought Blogger in 2003. It was created by a company founded by Evan Williams, who would go on to co-found Twitter.

Blogging platforms have different approaches to porn and nudity. WordPress permits "mature content," but excludes it from public areas of the service and does not allow pornographic material such as "explicit sexual acts." Photo-heavy Tumblr, now a part of Yahoo, says "sexual or adult-oriented content" must be flagged as "Not Suitable for Work" and does not allow for the embedding of sexually explicit video. Medium, also founded by Evan Williams, says flat-out: "No porn."

From Engadget:

Well that was fast. Google only declared that it would begin cracking down on adult content posted to Blogger a few days ago, but it's already decided it was a bit hasty in its decision. After coming under fire over the introduction of a retroactive change that would ban sexually explicit images and video and also required owners to delete older content, the search giant has told users that it will crack down harder on the publishing of commercial porn instead.

"This week, we announced a change to Blogger's porn policy. We've had a ton of feedback, in particular about the introduction of a retroactive change (some people have had accounts for 10+ years), but also about the negative impact on individuals who post sexually explicit content to express their identities," says Jessica Pelegio, Social Product Support Manager at Google. "Blog owners should continue to mark any blogs containing sexually explicit content as "adult" so that they can be placed behind an 'adult content' warning page."

So there you have it. Maybe Google realised it would see a mass exodus of users jumping over to Tumblr or it just couldn't ignore the negative responses coming its way. Either way, adult content still has a home on Blogger, as long as it's your own or you have permission to post it.

Again, whether this represents a total return to the status quo, or there's still some new policy changes for use of Blogger, I dunno yet.

[pedonbio]

Moral of the story: if you are serious about blogging, buy your own domain name, and pay for your own webhosting. Don't rely upon Tumblr or Blogspot to host your stuff, because they can pull the plug at any time and take all your content with it and not even wipe your tears when they're done.

What happened to leftofyall?

[TheZookie007]

What happened to leftofyall?

Good question! I guess it fell victim to exactly the kind of thing I was talking about -- don't depend upon Blogspot to host your stuff because it could fail. Get your own domain name, your own hosting, etc. and manage your content yourself, is the way to go. Ironic that that should happen in this thread, eh?

[TheZookie007]

Apparently google changed its mind about prohibiting adult content on blogger, though I haven't read the details/fine print of the thing just yet:

Tumblr and Blogspot wouldn't be in business if it weren't for porny porn sites, it seems to me, just as Yahoo! Groups and Geocities before it.

-- TheZookie "don't tread on my porn" 007

[Ironbeard]

What would a good alternative site to Dailymotion be besides porn tube sites like (honestly don't know if mentioning them is a violation or not. They steal content so rather not mention their names anyway) Somewhere an owner of the content can freely post previews.

Mod edit: NONE of the tube sites are explicitly prohibited by the Owner's rules. As with ANYthing posted here that links to ANYplace outside, it's often a matter of what ELSE is in the link that causes problems (i.e.: the "related videos" that appear on most tube site pages). SO, if you want to post a link to a video that isn't against the Owner's rules (the video itself I mean) and be safe about it (avoiding a violation for collateral reasons) just post it so that the OTHER stuff doesn't show up in the link you provide. That's the prudent thing to do, since there are tons of Score/Daktari/etc... clips scattered all over the tube sites.

We've provided instructions on how to do that at Youtube (since so many people like to link from there) but we can't just wander the net figuring out how to make "safe" links from random sites. Usually, it involves an alternate version of the regular/main link to the page... using the "embed" or "pop-out" URL for the video instead, or in some cases, editing part of the regular URL so that only the video itself is shown. A little experimentation is all it usually takes to figure out how to do it.

If you can't figure it out, you can always opt to use a filehost like sendspace, mediafire, 1fichier, dep0sitfiles, etc... all of those just let folks DL a file w/o also displaying the contents of other files. Hope this info helps.  -Pal

[Djoser]

Damn! Dailymotion was my fave video site for the plethora of boob material available there...now that it is vanishing, I don't think I'd return there (it is becoming youtube 2.0, which is stupid because it is a battle they won't win, at least with the boobs they stood out)