I'm very apprehensive about doing anything that relies so strongly on a third party service, and this is unfortunately a great illustration why.
I'm very conscious about always having a means to maintain control over my product. That might mean I'm actually shooting myself in the foot in other ways. But at least I can (hopefully) never fall victim to a situation like this.
It probably wouldn't be so much of a problem if you could enter into some kind of deal with Google where you would pay a monthly fee in return for access to their API (for example) and Google would have a financial incentive to allow you to keep using it.
In this case, however, the guy was expecting to get something for free to build his business on and that, I think, is just plain silly.
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I'm very apprehensive about doing anything that relies so strongly on a third party service, and this is unfortunately a great illustration why.
I'm very conscious about always having a means to maintain control over my product. That might mean I'm actually shooting myself in the foot in other ways. But at least I can (hopefully) never fall victim to a situation like this.
It probably wouldn't be so much of a problem if you could enter into some kind of deal with Google where you would pay a monthly fee in return for access to their API (for example) and Google would have a financial incentive to allow you to keep using it.
In this case, however, the guy was expecting to get something for free to build his business on and that, I think, is just plain silly.
Given the AdSense/AdWords scandals, I doubt that the financial incentive would be so strong.
they should have uploaded the videos to vimeo/dailymotion and other video websites at the same time