Comments on: Soapbox back open

By: » MSN Soapbox Re-opens With Copyright Protection Detection » InsideMicrosoft - part of the Blog News Channel

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:00:59 +0000

[...] MSN Soapbox is now accepting new registrations, about two and a half months after it stopped accepting them due to copyright concerns. Microsoft stopped letting new people into the site, deciding it first needed an effective means of keeping a huge amount of copyright violations off the site before they wound up joining Google in a billion dollar lawsuit. [...]

By: Kris Hoet

Kris Hoet — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 10:31:31 +0000

Hey Michael – good to see you like the service, I only wished WordPress.com would allow me to embed it :)

To come back to your comments:
1. This is definitely not only an issue for Soapbox, but more an evolution of that industry, also YouTube and other will integrate the same type of anti piracy measures, something they’re working on now.
2. I don’t like the limitations either, I think that’s very valuable feedback, for me it concerns mainly the number of tags you can add, but fully agree here
3. Lack of content is indeed strongly linked to the fact that the service has been in closed beta for a long time, so hopefully this will change very quickly now

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 04:05:49 +0000

I love MSN Soapbox. I think it’s a great video-sharing site. It’s great except for a few things:
1. The new piracy thingy. I love to watch music videos. But if they aren’t on Soapbox, then that makes me unhappy. So would it be for most other users. It’s really a sad thing for users. I don’t like it. That’s how YouTube was successful I think. Because they had some neat content like that. You don’t see YouTube doing away with that. So if Soapbox is going to become sucessful, that’s kind of a no-no to me.
2. I hate the character/symbol limitations. They seem to be somewhat worse than YouTube’s. Everything seems to have a limit. I don’t like that.
3. Lack of user content. Of course, being a beta, not too many users coming by to drop in some stuff. But once it’s out of beta, there will be more.

That’s my only quirks with Soapbox. Otherwise than that, it’s perfect.