Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Getting rid of Copyright Claims on your Youtube Video

So you made a video, uploaded it on youtube, and just a few minutes later you get stinking "Copyright Claim" and that your video is blocked in some countries.

Bullshit right?! Because you're not stealing another artist's music, in fact you are helping them promote it.  And if you are doing like a dedication video, that would suck even more if Youtube decides to completely remove the audio from your video, leaving with a silent movie.


Also, with the copyright claim, you will not be able to Monetize your video, nor enable your video to be viewable on mobile devices. 


After a few searches, and reading on comments, here's how to remove the Copyright Claim on your Youtube video, and enable your video to be viewed on mobile devices.


The following steps are not mine, this was commented by TheProdigy248, hopefully it would work on my video and yours too!


1.Go to the top right corner and open your account.

2.Click on Video Manager
3.On the left go to Copyright Notices
4.Click on "Matched third party content"or whatever it says.
5.At the bottom click on "I believe this copyright claim is not valid"
6.Bubble in the 2nd to last and click continue.
7.Check the box and hit continue.
8.Copy and paste my comment thats above to the 'Please Explain Briefly" box

This video is fair use under U.S. copyright law because it is (1) noncommercial (2) transformative in nature, and (3) does not compete with the original work or have any negative effect on its market."


9.Check the box, and type your name and hit continue.

10.Finally, hit Submit Dispute.

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

One Truck Lane Policy on C5

If you're from around Manila, I'm sure you have already experienced the harrowing traffic in Edsa and C5.

I have been living in Manila for 4 years now, and when I first arrived back in 2010, traffic was already bad, but not as bad as it is today.

First, I encountered the total truck ban in Edsa which up to now I honestly don't its rules because I still see huge trucks (those net weight is over 4200kg) plying along Edsa, despite numerous checkpoints.  I'm gona bet my life thos buwayas are just taking in bribe.

With the truck ban in Edsa, C5 started becoming more congested!  I mean back in 2010 getting caught there during peak hours means an additional 1 hour to your usual 15-20 minute travel time from Market Market to Eastwood.

C5 then started implementing the truck ban with window hours, and ultimately, now as of time of this writing Sept 17 2014, have limited trucks to one lane.

Which, in my opinion, made things worse!  I frequently traverse via c5 since I live in Marikina and my gf works in Shaw.

How does it work?  

Existing truck ban in c5 disallows truck to travel except during window hours, Sundays and holidays.  The window hours are 10am to 5pm and 10pm til 6am.  During those hours I see an endless queue of trucks both on the north and south bound lane.

On top of this truck ban, during the window hours, trucks are only allowed to travel on one lane, which is the 2nd inner lane, or as posted along the road "3rd lane from the sidewalk.  Truck lanes are clearly marked which is good, they even have MMDA vehicles guiding them, which has a sign "Sumunod sa truck lane" (Follow the truck lane).  All is fine and dandy, smooth flowing and according to plan, then you reach the flyovers.

Now this is where the system fails miserably! Flyovers, namely Bagong ilog (which by the way is always traffic with or without the truck ban), Ortigas flyover and Katipunan flyover/underpass, all become 2 lanes.  Nowhere is it posted to tell the truck whether to stay on the right or the left lane.  So they occupy both lanes of the flyover, and after passing it they all try to swerve back into the truck lane causing more traffic!

Private vehicles can still use the inner most lane, or the lane near the center isle. But then you get trapped there if you need to get to the outer lane.

I also notice an increased number of accidents in C5 involving trucks, specially the one following the lead vehicle! That I don't understand at all!

For now, I guess its the best the MMDA can come up with.  Even I, the most opinionated person I know, lol, have no other ideas the city can handle truck traffic.

At least Erap has eased up on the Manila truck ban, which lessened the traffic on nlex (another road I frequently travel).

Just my two cents!