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Accusations Fly in Viacom, YouTube Copyright Fight
Google deliberately weakened its copyright compliance standards after it acquired YouTube in 2006 so it “would profit from illegal downloads,” Google co-founder Sergey Brin once said, according to a Friday filing by Viacom in its infringement suit against the company. YouTube, in its own Friday filing and in a blog post , said it was legally immune to copyright infringement claims -– even if it knowingly hosted copyrighted works on its video-sharing site. One reason was that Viacom — which owns MTV, BET, Paramount and other media concerns — had a marketing practice of secretly uploading its own videos to YouTube, some of the same works at issue in the case.
Continue reading »feature: Smoking guns, dark secrets aplenty in YouTube-Viacom filings
Court documents in the $1 billion lawsuit between Viacom and YouTube were unsealed today, finally shedding some light on key questions: did Viacom have “smoking gun” evidence that YouTube was deliberately profiting from 62,637 Viacom clips that were watched more than 507 million times on the site? Was Google aware of the copyright infringement problems when it purchased YouTube in 2006? Were YouTube’s own founders involved in uploading unauthorized materials?
Continue reading »Online presence of hate, terrorist groups up 20%
Hate groups have always been a presence on the Internet, but their presence is growing quicker lately thanks to social networking sites. According to a report from the Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC), groups that promote violence, terrorism, homophobia, antisemitism, and other forms of intolerance grew by 20 percent in the last year alone. The report is part of the Center’s annual look at the spread of hate groups online, which noted that there are now more than 11,500 social networks, websites, forums, and blogs that focus on spreading intolerance, recruiting new members, and instructing people on how to hurt others.
Continue reading »YouTube: Auto-captions for everyone
All toe they donuts work prefect Lee Google is now letting anyone use its new auto-captioning feature for YouTube videos.…
Continue reading »YouTube Use Accountable for 10% of Mobile Data
Mobile traffic reports during the second semester of 2009 indicate that YouTube is responsible for utilizing a tenth of existing data transfer resources, similar to P2P file sharing. A comprehensive study conducted by experts from Allot Communications, providers of network optimization for operators, reveals that mobile users favor streaming over HTTP. However, P2P traffic is closing in fast, accounting for the congestion of the most crowded five per cent of cells, with figures of up to 34 per cent, compared to about 12 per cent overall.
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