Amateur video site overrun by — no, not porn
Victim of their own success: Vimeo, the online video-sharing venture owned by Barry Diller's IAC. The site has been been doing well since IAC fired Vimeo's founder, wacky Web 2.0 poster boy Jakob Lodwick. But Vimeo's ample capacity is now bogged down by a glut of videogame screen-capture movies, sometimes called fraps. Why is that a problem?
Fraps are easy to shoot — just click record while playing a game on your PC. A 10-minute session at HD quality makes for a Godzilla-sized video file to upload to Vimeo.
But filespace isn't the only issue. Management is refreshingly blunt: Vimeo was meant to be a site to share personal real-world movie camera work with friends and family. Dammit, you kids with your Grand Theft Auto 4 clips are ruining everything. Starting in September, Vimeo will delete previously uploaded fraps and ban new ones. Its users, meanwhile, will just decamp to WeGame.com.