by JaddziaDax » Fri Aug 27, 2010 3:21 pm
The most common reaction I've seen out there is to create hideous watermarks and slap it in the corner of their video. Glaring eyesores they are, but I hate professional watermarks as well.
I sometimes start the end credits just before the video ends, makes it slightly harder for them to rip off my end credits without disrupting the end of the video. I guess this is about as underhanded as the watermark, but I think it's less distracting because it only happens at the end of the video.
MY normal reaction is to leave a comment stating something like: "Thanks for liking my video and all, but why did you remove my credits?" Truthfully, I've never actually had someone change my bumpers to their's, but they just remove them. So far every time I've done this the video is removed, without a fight even.
When it wasn't my video, posting the actual name of the video, "OMG this is _______! I love this vid!" or similar has given me the same results. I assume it's because they have been found out.
I find that my videos end up in Frankensteins more than anything. Pointing out that's what they did I usually just gets the person "crediting" me. O.o I've given up caring about those, at least there was some slight effort in the video more than just removing bumpers.
I've yet to have a video of mine stolen where they just changed the music, but this has happened to my friends, usually pointing out what they did oftentimes gets them to take the video down. Though I think it was more of a fight.
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Why do they do this? I assume they want recognition without the work.