Originally Posted by borked

I have a question for you content producers - something that K0nr4d brought up in another thread:

His problem (as a tube-author) was you allow your content to be uploaded to tubes as clips. These clips would of course match against your full-length content. Would it be useful to you if this were implemented to specify whether you allow clips of this content are allowed, and if so, max clip length permitted (this is of course, per-video based).

So, let's say
Video 1, a 15 minute video, is absolutely unique and should never appear on any tube nomatter what. So you set the permit_clips tag to false.
Video 2 - a 60 minute blockbuster where 5 minute clips will be seeded to the tubes by you or others. So you set the permit_clips tag to true and clips_maxlength value to 300 (seconds)

So if any content (5 min clip or full length) of Video1 hits the tube, the tube will be told it is not authorised to use the content, so discard. However, if a 5 minute clip of Video2 hits the tube, it will be allowed. Conversely, someone gets the full Video2 and makes their own 10 minute clip and uplaods to a tube - the tube would be told it is not authorized to use so discard.

Would that give more flexibility for you?