Wheel Episodes Removed From RuTube

The first purge in 2011 took some other moments that haven't yet resurfaced. Ones that I remember are a Season 20 bonus round where FINE WINE was filled in completely, and the lady in 2003 who solved KELSEY GRAMMER AS DR. FRASIER CRANE for $7,200 with only the R's and S's.

It really does suck that kingskip's hard work of providing Wheel episodes is down the toilet now. Even sadder, the Firefox plugin, Download Helper, doesn't download through RuTube.

At least users on other sites are not affected, and as of now, I am going to download whatever I can, in case Sony does a repeat of June 2011.

Sorry for the necropost, but this is to inform you that my Dailymotion account (pannoni3) got terminated yesterday, likely due to numerous takedown claims. Unlike YouTube, DM doesn't have a strike system in terms of being taken down, but it seems lately that a multiple number of sources have aided in submitting claims in removing videos, and a shift in management in 2017, when the site was last redesigned, had a greater focus on such claims. Up until a couple months ago, I'd only get a claim rarely, about once every other month or so. But this sudden uptick has likely meant that a major shift in policy is starting to gain hold, and I did have a major purge of Jeopardy! episodes in late 2017, which forced me to shift to Google+ and now the Internet Archive with those posts. As for why I got sacked there, Dailymotion's terms of use does mention about the right to remove a user's account after vague number of takedowns have occurred. It's probably around ten a month, since I got hit from Viacom for some MTV videos, Sony with a few remaining Jeopardy! episodes they missed the first time, and who knows what else. The way to go is to look for those small-market sites that likely wouldn't care as much, since essentially I only post these for fun, and after all Sony lost the Betamax case back in the '80s. 

With that said, that's 73 Wheel episodes I had posted as recently as last weekend that are now gone and replaced with "Content rejected" screens whenever I try to access them. I'll try to eventually get them over to the Internet Archive, but of course, since it won't embed videos, will only provide links for them. I don't have many more Wheel to post (about ten episodes or so from the late '00s), but it's just a shame that Sony should just allow $75 per episode to all, not just the contestants involved. It's still high enough that it would encourage trading. The bottom line is that if you see an episode, download it before it's gone!

I'm sorry about all the Wheel episodes that had been removed from Rutube in 2014! If you want to upload any full episodes of the syndicated nighttime Wheel, you'll have to try Internet Archive. I've uploaded clips of credit rolls from various episodes of the syndicated nighttime Wheel there.