It takes no rocket scientist to see my videos have copyrighted content. However I make sure I tell people who the artist etc is and had started to include a website link later on. I think that was sufficient to YouTube standards a year ago when I had a partnership believe it or not (I was genuinely shocked); a channel with 100% copyrighted material became a partner? The only other channel I know of that has done that is FailBlog and it is a miracle that they can post so many illegal videos and post ads!

Anyway, slowly Youtube has been enforcing their anti-copyright measures. My Chad Reed: First Race with Suzuki video actually got rejected but I reuploaded it with a voice clip of Chad which bypassed their system (this method doesn’t work now). From there on I knew I wouldn’t be lasting too long since the big music corporations target Youtube (ignoring most other large video sharing sites which host the same content) to take money from, advertise and control.

Most of my videos, well at least half by now are only allowed to be shown in certain countries. This was probably the worst thing that could have happened. My viewership dropped by half. Literally in 2 weeks it was half of what it was and I couldn’t really do anything about that. Everytime I upload a new video it doesn’t get the attention it used to get either.

Just in the  last week, for the first time ever one of my videos got deleted. It was the Travis Pastrana at X Games Best Trick (2005) which had over 200k views. The claim was made by ESPN which owns the X Games but I don’t understand why they delete videos with high amounts of views but leave the 40-100 other versions there. I also have about 5-10 other X Games videos which have less views but no doubt will be deleted.

According to YouTube “repeat offenders will have their accounts terminated.” It’s a pretty harsh policy but I guess they want to keep out of trouble seeing as Google apparently makes no money from it (makes you wonder why they bother). So from what I can gather from that is, my channel, KICKERMAN360 won’t be around for much longer. I probably won’t make many more videos or re-upload any that get deleted or aren’t shown in some countries. It just isn’t worth my time or bandwidth seeing as I am on a limited bandwidth broadband plan to do so.

Also, editing videos isn’t as fun as it used to be. I used to always learn something new in each video. You can probably tell after watching some in order of release. Now days it is just plain boring to me. I’m not saying I am an expert; because I’m not, but the hours of time to make a video is something I’d rather spend doing something else.

Maybe if I had more incentive to make videos I’d get back into it but as of now even though people are still subscribing which is awesome, I reached over 3000 the other week, I’m either too busy or not interested in making any more videos. Perhaps later I’ll get back into it.

On a more positive note, hopefully I can upload all my videos to this website. I have been meaning to do that for ages, just never really been focused. So for all you fans, maybe you guys can take over!

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After reading the bad news from prayforjeremylusk.blogspot.com last week I decided to make a video. The amount of attention it got far exceeded my expectations and just shows how much Jeremy was respected by the FMX community and well … everyone. Here’s the video about him below, if you had issues with it (and I know quite a few did) continue reading, otherwise enjoy the video if you are yet to view it.

Here’s some explaining for some offended people:

The Title: Has nothing to do with military soldiers, it is related to Jeremy’s involvement in the Metal Mulisha. “The Troops” is what the members are called and Brian Deegan is the “General”, hence the military theme throughout. I didn’t want to call it “Jeremy Lusk Tribute” as it would be rather uncreative and boring. EXPN/ESPN Action Sports FMX blogger Ryan Leyba also called one of his blog posts by the same name (after I poted my video).

The Tag: Is used to prevent people re-posting my work. It’s discouraging to see people claim my videos as there own and reap the rewards without credit. The watermark or tag is the only permanent way to ensure credit is given to me, I have been doing for quite a while. Currently this is the 3rd tag design, I believe it’s more pro-viewer then the previous ones. I don’t see why people are so annoyed by it, TV stations have always done it.

Tags: Backflip Brian Deegan Crash Freestyle Motocross Hart Attack Jeremy Lusk LuskFMX Metal Mulisha Stack X Knights XKnights