Another Freedom of Speech post: Vimeo's doing Wha!?!?

I'm gonna quote their blog:

"Starting August 1st, basic accounts' original source files will be stored for one week from the upload date, after which they will be removed."

They dropped the bombshell when they disallowed gaming videos, now they're doing it again with Original File downloads!

Thank goodness Viddler still has the feature for Original File downloads, and that's where I'm mirroring all my high quality Vimeo videos to right now.

This is just preposterous that they allow Plus members to keep the feature and the basic users get it taken away. They have growing sponsorship, so they could use that money to finance to keep it for everybody.

From now on, I'll be uploading 2 versions of the same video. A lower than original quality 720p30 or 24 version for Vimeo and a high quality (up to 1080p) version for Viddler.

And I'd also like to remind everyone of this: Mirror your videos; protect your rights.

And it's not just for Fair Use, it could be for instances like this when a well earned privilege is taken away so suddenly.