[game_preservation] Vimeo Bans Game Play Footage

[Andrew Armstrong]

Mike Melanson wrote:

> Hey, it's their site and they can make whatever rule they want. Period.

Oh, absolutely. But I like to editorialise my comments here, I mean, it 
is a tad ridiculous they ban this but not other long media. After all, 
it's silly not too call out the action as pathetic, since it clearly is. 
You mention it might be flash, but it's probably just the length and 
amount of downloads for the videos. Obviously TV show clips and whatever 
get much higher views:length ratio, so they save on bandwidth and disk 
space! Good for them. Not good for us, or good for people in general really.

Cest la vie! it just will become less popular with gamers I guess. It is 
worth noting here though, since if one site does it, what's to stop all 
the others? (apart from GameTrailers and GameVideos I guess! :) ).

Andrew