AMV Thieves

mystic_water882 · Post by **mystic_water882** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 8:33 pm

ugh this secret gurl is driving me insane!

yea she removed one of my vids but the other one is still there argh. y do ppl do this? honestly? do they think it makes them cool? =_=;;

pinky75910 · Post by **pinky75910** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 9:34 pm

I think these poor pathetic people have no friends and steal other people's work to try to feel special.

Shamensyth · Post by **Shamensyth** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 10:14 pm

pinky75910 wrote:I think these poor pathetic people have no friends and steal other people's work to try to feel special.

I totally agree...

Some news for you guys:

Here in the Philippines, some of your AMVs are being aired, that's right aired on TV. It's a TV chat channel where you chat using your cellphone and your message appears on TV. And on the right side of the TV screen are music videos from MTV and sometimes you will see AMVs. Just want to share this with you all.

The channel names are:

LinkTV
ChatLink
CableLink
TXT-Network

I know that even if you show these videos here, you won't get sued or something but... they edited the videos and put their logos and their names on the videos so they can take credit. I even saw my first AMV there.

pinky75910 · Post by **pinky75910** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 12:48 am

Shamensyth wrote:Here in the Philippines, some of your AMVs are being aired, that's right aired on TV.

Woah. I don't know about that.

Shamensyth · Post by **Shamensyth** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 3:21 am

pinky75910 wrote:
Shamensyth wrote:Here in the Philippines, some of your AMVs are being aired, that's right aired on TV.

Woah. I don't know about that.

Yup, especially the Final Fantasy game series ones.

reddragon_syndicate · Post by **reddragon_syndicate** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 12:43 pm

Before I found the Org. I stumbled across some on Kazaa.. well several.. so there are infinite possibilities on how the video could be stolen

this video for instance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCRDQewhXzc&search=AMV
I searched on the Org and didnt find it. but could very well be someone elses..
I downloaded this video from Kazaa well over a year ago... and the time that youtube says it was put on their site doesnt really coincide with when I saw it.. .. .. I cant confirm that this one is stolen.. i dont know the author. and the link sends you to a video stream so the it might look a bit funny.. but when I watched through the video there looked like there were some large blocks later in the vid. I think it may have been recoded. the quality I have.. blows this one away.. Sorry im rambling.. in short the file sharing programs contribute to the theft as well.

reddragon_syndicate · Post by **reddragon_syndicate** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 12:47 pm

P.S. > heh forgot: I no longer download them from Kazaa.. and all my AMV downloads are in a certain folder that are not shared.

lol just thought I'd put that in before someone started releasing their rage on me.

Take Care

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 1:50 pm

reddragon_syndicate wrote:I downloaded this video from Kazaa well over a year ago... and the time that youtub says it was put on their site doesnt really coincide with when I saw it.. .. ..

Given that YouTube didn't become really popular until a year or so ago, that's no surprise even if the original creator was the one to put it up.

reddragon_syndicate wrote:I cant confirm that this one is stolen.. i dont know the author. and the link sends you to a video stream so the it might look a bit funny.. but when I watched through the video there looked like there were some large blocks later in the vid. I think it may have been recoded. the quality I have.. blows this one away..

That will happen with any AMV you post. The quality is degraded, there may be skipping, and there's nothing you can do about it.

pinky75910 · Post by **pinky75910** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 6:11 pm

I understand people just wanting to share videos. Before I saw a-m-v.org, Kazaa was my first chance at seeing one or two vids. It's bad though putting them on your own website giving them greater access from people it may anger-
Or of course, stealing credit.

ewokmaster · Post by **ewokmaster** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 6:57 pm

Yea this is kinda disturbing. There are two Mr. Brightside/FLCL vids on that site, both uploaded after my own. Luckily, neither was my own original work. While I doubt any of my videos are popular enough to be stolen, some of the scenes were a little too similarly placed for my comfort. Makes me wonder whether my vid was the "inspiration" for these you tube hacks.