Hi Guys!
Over the last months, some videos have been put together; things that we thought would be good content for the DJ and Video communities.
As kind of a "Last Blogge Poste" by me, they're featured here, for your viewing pleasure:
*DJ MK talks about Being a hip hop DJ, pirate radio and mix tapes – and dealing with your laptop when it breaks down on you… (3 part video)
*DJ Skazi talks about how he got started, what equipment he uses , and who, when he's on top of the world, his heroes are.
*Sagi Rei talks about why and how he started singing, and gives an impromptu performance
*And the DJ Spin off Mix was set to video art!(3 part video)
I hope you enjoy them!
Thanks to everyone, for an amazing year….
Lonnie
Hi Everyone -
We want to update you on a few different things, some that you know about, some new.
They have all happened more or less at the same time, and have ended up affecting the site all at once.
First, a bit of background: we started getting alerted to copyright content on the site.We have never wanted to be a repository for copyrighted material! eSnips has a clear policy of not allowing copyrighted content illegally on the site. This policy has been articulated in the Terms of Use, in the forums and so on. eSnips is a place for original content, and we are proud of the quality of our user’s content and the community activity on our site!
And around this same time, we were approached by artists and reps wanting to post and sell their stuff here but without an automatic download.
It seemed like a good idea to coordinate the two - limiting automatic download, and taking care of any copyright on the site. Up until then we had no way to identify such content; we had acted according to DMCA guidelines and taken down any materials indicated to us as copyrighted.
After researching the different solutions on the market, we implemented Audible Magic. eSnips is committed to using any new technologies to identify copyrighted materials as they become available.
On top of all this, recently we discovered about sites set up to abuse eSnips, and exploit content on the site, use up our bandwidth and avoid even the lack of a download button!
So we are trying a more limited bandwidth for a while. We have tried to do what will cause a minimum of problems to esnippers in general, and we are still monitoring it to see how things develop. We have already made a fine-tuning in the bandwidth as a result of feedback we got from esnippers, and we hope you see that in your browsing the site.
In around a month and a half we should finish all the scans and tests, and then we can re-evaluate the bandwidth and download options.
As changes are made, we will update you all.
We want to thank you for your patience with all this going on.
The eSnips team
The community pages should be working better this coming week: there is a new trial in place and it will be watched to see how it goes.
The download button will stay as is for now – we really hear your requests, and it still might be made the default option.
It's just not happening yet.
Hi to all
To all those who have wondered what is going on with the community pages.
Well, i'll tell ya.
(I did write about it before, but that was in another place...)
What's going on is a rebuilding of them.
Outwardly, they seemed fine - but they were outdated and demanded an overhaul. So we decided to put them together again, so they would be absolutely fabulous.
Now, we have done it, but there have been some surprises while we were working on it.
And there have been other things that happened at the same time, which caused other things.
In short - things have gone slower than planned.
I can guess this is frustrating to some of you.
It will be over soon.
Take care, and stay warm.
Lonnie
Hi!
There will be a short downtime on the site at 2 am EST on the 23rd of December - between Saturday night and Sunday morning - in order to upgrade the site. It shouldn’t last more than 2 hours – and it will probably be less than that.
See you on the other side!