Hi

We are building a niche social networking service and plan on offering
YouTube video uploads via our site to our users.
Since all uploads will be done to our own youtube account(s), we are
concerned that our accounts might be shut down when inappropriate
content is uploaded  by our users.

We wouldn't mind if the inappropriate videos are removed, but would
like to know what are the chances of the account being closed if such
a thing is done over and over again by our users.

if that's a real risk..Is there something we can do (or some
partnership we can enter with youtube) in order to guarantee that our
accounts stay alive when such things happen.

Many Thanks!

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Simo Amtoun

Hi Simo,

I would suggest authenticating users into their own YouTube accounts instead
of uploading into your accounts:

1) The API only allows 1000 video uploads per channel
2) Accounts that have repeated terms of use violations (copyright, nudity,
violence, etc.) will be terminated, and we can't provide you a way around
this.

Cheers,

Steph

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Thanks for the reply...too bad though.  We studied the uploading to
user accounts option unfortunately it does not fit our reqs.

Our only option now is to turn to a storage/transcoding/hosting
provider. and these guys are not cheap!

Simo,

I'm not sure if it would fit your budget or limitations, but you could have
a staging period on the account you use.

Say for example I upload a video through your site. The video would be
immediately marked as private. Then there would be a work flow for the video
being approved. In this work flow, someone would review the video that has
been uploaded to ensure it is appropriate, and then approve it for
publishing. Once it is approved, the video is changed from private to
public.

Now of course, the only problem with this is that it's not very scalable.
But I assume you'll be starting out with a moderately small member base. As
you get more members to the point where managing an approval work flow is
unrealistic, you can move to a professional hosting service since you have
more money due to such a large member base!

Either way, that sounds like the most reasonable way to get your site to
work with Youtube in the manner you've suggested.

Hope you find a reasonably cheap solution to this problem!
 - Steve

Yea, I am going to monitor mine daily and make sure they don't upload crap
or delete them. They would really have to upload something bad on a regular
basis for youtube to zap their account.

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 6:17 PM, Stephen Mesa <stephen.m...@gmail.com>
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