Pegleg Points the Way to Full Length Films on YouTube
April 12, 2013
I can’t imagine motion picture executives are thrilled with this service. TechCrunch declares, “Pegleg Wants to Help You Find All Those Free, Full-Length Movies on YouTube.” The article introduces Pegleg, an app created by Torontonian Mina Mikhail that makes it easy to locate the full-length movies lurking on YouTube. The app began as an exercise for Mikhail, who was practicing development in Meteor.
Users can browse or search links to movies that Pegleg already knows about. If the film a user is looking for is not yet in the list, the app will suggest possibilities. Many of the links to which Pegleg points have disappeared, and it is quite possible their listing in the app hastened their demise. The article tells us:
“As far as Mikhail is concerned though, that’s just the nature of the beast. Takedowns can and will happen, but he finds it unlikely that these sorts of film uploads will ever completely disappear from YouTube. As some films are unceremoniously yanked from YouTube, others will certainly be uploaded in their place, and the ceaseless dance between copyright holders and YouTube-savvy film buffs continues on. Mikhail doesn’t intend for Pegleg to go dark anytime soon unless something truly dramatic happens, but let’s face it — people are going to upload and share these movies on YouTube no matter what ultimately happens to Pegleg.”
The developer elaborates on this response in this blog post at the Pegleg site. Will studios try to stop the service, or keep using it to find targets for DMCA takedown requests?
Cynthia Murrell, April 12, 2013
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