What makes Somebody’s Basement different from YouTube, et. al.?
The most striking difference between Somebody’s Basement and the larger Internet video distributors is that we strive to provide nothing but top-quality independently-produced content, while they are open to less-than-professional material and cool stuff like hamsters on pianos (nothing wrong with that—just not our thing). Our goal is to become the place people go when they want to experience the best that Internet entertainment has to offer. For producers of web content, we’re different in one major way, but it is just a variation on a way in which we’re similar. All major Internet video distributors require that you grant them rights to edit your work and make derivative works from your works. Now, while we ask for those rights as well, we, unlike the big guys, give you ownership of the edited and derived material. That means that if you give us something to put up and we cut some of it for time considerations (or for any other considerations), you can take the stuff we edited and se
