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MTV Launches Music Video Site

Posted by Soulskill on from the guess-what's-top-rated-right-now dept.

An anonymous reader writes "MTV Music has just launched a website where they offer over 16,000 music videos — like YouTube, but with fewer notices and DMCA takedowns. They've also set up development tools for third parties to incorporate the content into their own creations. Users creating accounts at the site face other challenges, however, such as the six separate agreements and privacy statements that must be accepted via a single checkbox. Thankfully, at the time of writing the MTV Music website was making this process easier on its Firefox 3 visitors by automatically checking the accept box whenever any agreement is viewed."

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  1. So that's where all the music went... by thomsomc · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I guess they finally had to move ALL of the music videos off the air and onto a new website. I was wondering where they were going to actually show music videos...now I know.

  2. Is it me, or is the music quality really bad? by TheSunborn · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Is it me, or is the music quality really really bad?

    It almost sound like they encoded the music as 96Kbit/sec mp3 and then added noise.

    1. Re:Is it me, or is the music quality really bad? by TheSunborn · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Example: Try to listen to Tori Amos Winter
      http://www.mtvmusic.com/video/?id=47577
      And then compare to the youtube
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnboUbOGDOM

      The Mtv version got a really bad 'noice' in the background in the beginning of the song.
      Or maybe it's just a problem with their player and Linux.

  3. USA Only? by ErkDemon · · Score: 4, Interesting

    COPYRIGHTS RESTRICT US
    FROM PLAYING THIS VIDEO
    OUTSIDE THE U.S.

    So this site will shortly be eliminating pretty much all the competing sources of music videos on the web, but nobody outside the US is going to be able to watch it?

    Geographical firewalls on websites are a really bad idea. They're anti-www, anti free trade, and they Piss People Off. They make large chunks of the world population feel discriminated against, and resentful against the company or industry or country that's stopping them from being able to watch or read what other people can watch and read.

    They also make it more difficult to complain about other country-specific blocks, like China blocking its own population from being able to access certain external political sites. The more companies do this, the more frustrating the web will become.

    --
    Eric Baird
  4. Re:Lucky default? by jomegat · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Oh yes, thankfully they check that box for me. I was at a drug store this summer trying to get some Sudafed, but in order to do that, I was presented with an electronic notice telling me how I could go jail if I told lies about my intended use of the product (or some such rot - thanks meth-heads!). As I was reading the notice, they clerk "thankfully" grabbed the pen and checked the "Yes, I read this and understand it" box "for" me before I had even finished the first sentence. I was astounded. She got all huffy when I insisted she start all over, because I wanted to read all the fine print before agreeing to anything.

    MTV's approach is not that much different.

    --

    In theory, practice and theory are the same. In practice, they're not.

  5. Censorship by Fireye · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I was perusing this yesterday, and came across the Weird Al video "Don't Download This Song". One line in the original song goes:
    o/~ Like Morpheus or Grokster or Limewire or KaZaA o/~

    But the version on the new MTV site goes:
    o/~ Like *beep* or *beep* or *beep* or *beep* o/~

    Does anyone know if it was aired on MTV/VH1 this way, or is this unique to the web version?

    MTV: http://www.mtvmusic.com/video/?id=108884
    Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz-grdpKVqg