Why do I have to first upload to a THIRD PARTY video sharing website?

In a complex world with finite resources, often the best results are those that are achieved as a result of effective collaboration and cooperation.

• Our efforts to encourage Community Producers to upload their projects to FREE third party video sharing websites (like Internet Archive) help these sites to boost their efforts to expand their collections, provide universal online access, and preserve content.
• The vast amounts of server storage capacity afforded Community Producers at these websites allows us to offer our distilled collection without having to charge a fee for the use and maintenance of huge amounts of our own file server space.
• The willingness of third party video sharing websites to allow users to download videos and the expressed permission of the original authors to allow community access stations to air them on cable TV, increases their impact and helps to preserve (and inspire) community access television everywhere.

We realize that having to first upload to a third party video sharing website creates an additional step, we hope you will understand that it is a relatively small inconvenience in order to help make your programs available to communities all over the country.

When selecting a third party video sharing website, we suggest you use a free website like our good friends at Internet Archive. Click here for a list of other Video Sharing Websites you can use.