Yahoo Takes YouTube Idea and Expands On It
Yahoo might have missed out on buying YouTube as Google sits atop the purchase successfully, but they won’t let that get them down. Yahoo is exploring the amateur video popularity but stepping in with TV-style programming.
After lower than expected third-quarter earnings, a newly introduced program entitled “The 9″ has quietly raised eyebrows in the [...]
Video Web sites rush to fulfill viewer demand
Put it up and watch what happens — that’s the mantra of executives at leading Internet news and video sites as they try to keep tabs on how content is evolving in the era of YouTube and MySpace.
“Since you can’t predict it, you sort of have to just let it get out there,” Alan Citron, [...]
Google quizzed over YouTube plans
Google has vowed to take a tough line on copyright when it completes its $1.65bn (£875m) takeover of YouTube.
The video-sharing website’s rapid growth has been partly down to the thousands of clips from old TV shows uploaded illegally by its users.
But Google Europe vice-president Nikesh Arora told MPs his company would not tolerate copyright violations.
YouTube [...]
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There’s a cool site I found that allows you to watch many of your favorite episodes from The Simpsons for free “YouTube style” [...]
YouTube deletes 29,549 videos at request of Japanese broadcasters, copyright groups
A total of 29,549 videos were deleted from video streaming site YouTube following a request from copyright-related rights organizations, NHK and other broadcasters, the Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers (JASRAC) said Friday.
The collective request to delete the videos was made by 23 businesses and organizations. Parties included public broadcaster NHK and [...]
Gootube = legal P2P
“If we can have a legal YouTube, we can have a legal P2P service” says music industry analyst Bob Lefsetz author of The Lefsetz Letter in a right-on target rant about what the “GooTube” means to for the music business.
Announced just prior to Google’s acquisition plans for the online video sharing service, Industry observers like [...]
Anti-piracy system could hurt YouTube
A technology designed to detect copyright material could give YouTube a needed dose of legal legitimacy and calm any concerns Google Inc. has about spending $1.65 billion on the Internet video site. But that same technology could hurt YouTube’s edgy appeal.
While YouTube is known as the place to find almost any kind of video clip, [...]
“GooTube’s” Thank You Video
Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, cofounders of YouTube, recently put up a thank you video on their video clip powerhouse site.
This comes in light on the heels of their recent acquisition by Google for a reported 1.65 billion dollars.
Needless to say they are both as giddy as a couple of schoolgirls over their newfound wealth. [...]
Is Yahoo! now under the gun after losing YouTube?
It’s Google against Mark Cuban after all, in a rather unique twist on celebrity deathmatch. Well, it’s not that far gone yet, but yesterday afternoon’s announcement that Google would be purchasing #1 video-sharing site YouTube.com in an all-stock transaction was not entirely unexpected. Google will now be the largest provider of online video with its [...]
Google Buys YouTube for $1.65 Billion, Grabs Lead in Web Videos
Google Inc, the most-used Internet search engine, agreed to buy YouTube Inc. The purchase price is $1.65 billion, adding the largest video-sharing site on the Web and an audience that watches more than 100 million clips a day.
Founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen and their 65 employees will join the company, Google said today in [...]
