Introducing FIRST|Tube - Share FIRST.

[Walter Deitzler]

3397 will keep uploading to youtube, but I love the idea of having all of the FIRST videos in one place. If a team does both, then you have the world getting to see the videos, but you also have a nice place for those involved in FIRST to find and view FIRST videos.

[GeForceMonster]

Once again, we love that comments are being posed.

Just to bring to everyone's attention, one of the team members is an actual YouTube partner, and so the understanding of YouTube's community guidelines and end-user agreement license is crucial. Although, it is not necessary for one to have completely understood YouTube's sharing policy to note that YouTube's API is based off of collective views.

Simply, and this is directed towards not only Libby but other teams who feel this way, that views are based off of YouTube. Embedding simply means the video is not hosted on that particular site's servers and is instead, hosted by Youtube, who still is in 'charge' of the video views, and will count all the views made by those embedded videos directly towards that team's channel.
(for example, if I embed a video of TeamX's robot from their channel, every single viewer who plays TeamX's video on FIRST|Tube, will be credited to TeamX's total view count, dictated by YouTube itself!)

In essence, we are creating hub for teams to share only FIRST-related videos, so the search of private, unlisted, and videos of such nature is no longer needed or necessary. Simply head over to FIRST|Tube, search up or find the video you would like to view, and simply view it, yet still respecting and supporting that team's YouTube channel stats.

As per the FIRST videos, embedding is again, a sharing of a video not on a site, and so the site that actually has that video on their servers controls that file and the user that uploaded it. Thus forth, the YouTube user that apparently 'illegally copied' the FIRST game animations is responsible for any claims FIRST may file against him and solely him.

Feel free to ask any more questions you may have!