* Update: Goal Reach. Vids4BB stays alive! Way to go BB Community!!*
Most CrackBerry.com readers are familiar with the website Videos4BlackBerry.info. As the name suggests, the site offers tons of videos properly resized and formatted to be viewable on BlackBerry smartphones. The site has become very popular - we even feature a couple of titles from Videos4BlackBerry.info each week in our regular Click's Picks media roundups.
Here's the problem. It seems Vids4BB has become a little too popular, which resulted in Bla1ze (the site's owner/operator) receiving a whopping site hosting charge of $1,156.26 last month thanks to bandwidth surcharges. Unless the tab gets paid off, the site will be going into maintenance mode (which means no more videos available for download).
If you have benefited from the site in the past and want to give Bla1ze a hand in paying off the bill, he is accepting donations via PayPal. I personally shot over $50 for the cause (being able to watch the VS Fashion Show on my flight down to WES was worth it alone!).
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Big thanks go out to Kevin for posting this and sending off a donation.
With that being said, I have a few moments ago gotten off of the phone with GoDaddy, who have taken under consideration that where this is the first time the overage has happened...have agreed to lower the billing down to $578 for me (yayy!! BIG points for GoDaddy), as of now their is currently $126 set aside from donations (Thank you all!!) that will be going towards the payment, I'm bound and determined to keep the site going!
I also sent him $50. He's been helpful both as a moderator here and on his site. videos4blackberry is hands-down the best site out there for TV shows/Movies and not just because they're free. They are formatted perfectly for your Berry'.
C'm on Crackberry Community........time to pony up a buck or two!
I will definately help out! Just waiting for funds to finish transferring into my paypal account. I have used Videos4blacberry a few times and it is a great site! Thanks Bla1ze!
Congrats to the bill being lowered. My question is how you escape the eye of the law with all those pirated videos you distribute illegally?
Need I say more?
Yes, how exactly is that legal?
The site is not a Charitable organization and now their accepting money to facilitate illegal copyright infringement?
Not a first for the internet, but I'm suprised CrackBerry.com would condone pirate activities.
Need it one more time? READ THE FAQ!!!!!!!!
All that FAQ does is try to side step the DMCA, which does not make the owner exempt because the files are hosted with their full knowledge.
Also, just because you write a disclaimer does not automatically make it a get out of jail free card.
All major video hosting sites practice under the same policy set forth in my FAQ section, look at them...find their complaint sections...ie Youtube, Veoh, Viddler..I could go on.. I challenge you to find one that does not practice under the same policy,with what you are suggesting you might as well say google does the same thing...they are the BIGGEST facilitator of piracy on the net, they have every P2P site beat hands down.
I sent in a donation because I have downloaded a lot of shows off of this site. It is a great site and it would be a shame to lose it.
With the help of our 200,000+ members, only 1/4 of 1 percent (less than 1 percent) of us would need to donate $1.00 and we could keep this site going.
Bla1ze has put A LOT of effort into this site so show him that all his efforts are appreciated.
Due to the response from the BlackBerry community, I'm totally happy to let everyone know their is only $70 left to go on the bill at this point and then it's paid in full.
Thank You all so much!!
I am glad we can all help in a little way, please keep up the good work.
Just wanted to keep everyone updated, as of now the goal has been REACHED.
Once again as I can't say it enough to you all, Thank You!!
You all are the reason I started the site, the BB community is top notch!!
Glad to hear it. Now a new plan must be devised to "KEEP YOU ROLLIN!!!!!".
Does anyone know what happened to this site? I tried going to it today, but it just says it's unavailable...