MTV Launches Music Video Site

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."

Enjoy it while it lasts

In about 8 months, they'll have nothing but Real World, and you'll have to go to www.mtvmusic2.com if you want to actually see music videos.

Music video site?

I wonder how long until they subvert the channel to only broadcast crappy reality shows.

Actually..

The people behind MTV Music's web presence filmed a short video detailing their goals with the site, and outlined how they'll separate the Music videos from other MTV content to help establish a more defined web presence. I found it worthwhile.

http://www.mtvmusic.com/video/?id=55086 [mtvmusic.com]

So that's where all the music went...

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.

Neither music nor television

mtvmusic2.com will soon be dominated by jackass and some other useless bullshit that will destroy any remaining dignity the internet may have once had

Re:

Says you:

will destroy any remaining dignity the internet may have once had

Says DNA:

There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

Says I:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1011281&cid=25553165 [slashdot.org]

Does this mean..?

Does this mean that they can stop wasting our time with those stupid music videos on their TV channel, and get back to their reality TV roots...?

US only

I was thinking this was going to be really cool. If it was of a higher resolution than youtube, and all neatly organized it would be awesome. However It gets major negative points from me, as on the three video files I tried all i got was a "Copyrights prevent us from playing this file outside the U.S." Back to youtube for me.

Re:Which videos?

Isn't "Under Pressure" that song Queen ripped off from Vanilla Ice?

Re:Which videos?

All right stop, collaborate and listen
Ice is back with my brand new invention

You are going sing this in your head all day long.

Give me the box

Great, now mtv has another way to brainwash kids into thinking this emo crap is music. I also hate how some of my favorite bands are pigeonholed as a certain type of music because if they ever have a hit song it has to be just the right amount of pop. I miss the box music network. They seemed to have a great rotation and mix of music, at least in my area.

Proper music goes in the ears...

...not the eyes.

Yes, by all means show me a concert of some proper musicians playing live to an audience, or show me some historic footage of a band in a documentary.

But please don't show me pretty "mini-movies" that do nothing more than try to distract me from realising how crap the underlying music actually is.

MTV have done for music what pork fat has done for cardiac health.

Re:Proper music goes in the ears...

MTV have done for music what pork fat has done for cardiac health.

"MTV is to Music as KFC is to Chicken"
-Lewis Black

Thanks!

I thought proper music was live bands? Oh, then it was wax cylinders I think. Isn't it vinyl these days, with CDs being the product of the anti-christ?

It's a good thing we have people like you to tell us what proper music is.

Re:Proper music goes in the ears...

Nobody's showing you anything. If you don't want to watch, don't go to the site or turn on the channel. Jeez.

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

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.

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

Luxury. Outside the US it's 0Kbit/sec and we have to add our own noise.

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

Dam, I did not know that Denmark had been accepted as a new state in USA. Now I only have a few days to find out which president candidate to vote for.

Why was I not informed before.

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

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

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.

Lucky default?

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.

I sure as hell hope this is ironic. It's my vague recollection that there are laws (or court findings) against the default behavior being entering into a contract.

In US contract law, there has to be a meeting of the minds for a contract to be formed. That is, both parties have to believe they agree on what the contract says.
(Source: female lawyer from the defcon media archives; can't remember exactly who though)

When you click next without having read the contract, have the minds met? If the checkbox is on by default, you implicitly say you do, but did you mean to do that?

In any case, if it's not illegal, it's something that smells wrong.

Consider this: when you install Debian or Ubuntu, you're asked whether you want to install popularity-contest, a program that reports anonymous usage data [which packages are installed, when have they last been used].

I trust the Debian project and Canonical to not misuse that data, and to aggregate enough of it such that usage patterns which could identify individuals with high probability are lost in the aggregation process.

But it's still the right thing for Debian and Ubuntu not installing popularity-contest unless the user explicitly wants to.

-- Jonas K

Re:Lucky default?

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.

ffs, Rick-Rolled already?

Here's what a quick look on the site says:

Top Rated:
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Never Gonna Give You Up
By Rick Astley

ffs, /.

USA Only?

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.

Censorship

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 [mtvmusic.com]
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz-grdpKVqg [youtube.com]

Re:Disappointing

I guess in your case, you *can't* dance if you want to.