Unfortunately, I agree with a previous comment, that creating a filtered replica of YouTube content, and delivered free of YouTube's ads is not something anyone can reasonably expect YouTube to continue to do over the long-term, regardless of what they might have said or not said at a point in time.
YouTube has supported and continues to support the embedding of videos into other sites. It's not as if TotLol is circumventing the usual scheme. That's why YouTube are now showing banner ads within videos and I expect they might try interstitials too someday.
But TotLol is circumventing the usual scheme -- they're using their own flash player instead of embedding youtube's, which means they never show Google's lower-third banners or intersitial videos.
That's an overkill solution. But I remember having to remove youtube videos from one site when Legal got wary about the new notes feature. at the time there were no documented way to disable those by default when embedding.
that feature would enable the submitter to, after our content editors approved the video, to insert messages that would not get approved. So i can see a fair use case for the proprietary totlol flash player there.
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Unfortunately, I agree with a previous comment, that creating a filtered replica of YouTube content, and delivered free of YouTube's ads is not something anyone can reasonably expect YouTube to continue to do over the long-term, regardless of what they might have said or not said at a point in time.
YouTube has supported and continues to support the embedding of videos into other sites. It's not as if TotLol is circumventing the usual scheme. That's why YouTube are now showing banner ads within videos and I expect they might try interstitials too someday.
But TotLol is circumventing the usual scheme -- they're using their own flash player instead of embedding youtube's, which means they never show Google's lower-third banners or intersitial videos.
That's an overkill solution. But I remember having to remove youtube videos from one site when Legal got wary about the new notes feature. at the time there were no documented way to disable those by default when embedding.
that feature would enable the submitter to, after our content editors approved the video, to insert messages that would not get approved. So i can see a fair use case for the proprietary totlol flash player there.