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Viacom, Disney, Microsoft and Others Form Justice League of Copyright
A smorgasborg of media companies—Viacom, Disney, News Corp., NBC Universal, CBS, and others, including Microsoft—have formed a coalition laying out guidelines for protecting copyrights online. Their "principles" include using technology to wipe out copyright no-no content generated by users, as well as shutting it out before it hits the public intertubes. You'll notice GooTube isn't part of the list—they're not of the pre-emptive blockage philosophy, as of yet. However, some analysts think Google will have to play ball if their guidelines do become an actual standard. More »
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YouTube Antipiracy Video Identification System Enters Beta Testing
The not-so hotly anticipated GooTube antipiracy system has jumped into beta. Creatively dubbed Video Identification, it's a digital fingerprint setup where uploaded clips are matched against a stock of legit clips provided by their owners—YouTube will then follow whatever course the copyright holder wants, be it leave it or pull it. We'll have a better idea of how well it works in coming weeks as companies sign up with the test and we watch vast swaths of video either die off or sit tight. Of course, the real question is: Just how long will this be in "beta"? [Google Blog via PC World, Flickr]
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The equivalent of the 1992 US Men's Olympic basketball team has just gotten together to develop a competitor to GooTube. That's right, NBC, Fox, AOL, MSN, MySpace and Yahoo! have united Captain Planet style and formed a web video site not made up of crappy clips people don't want to watch. Broken by CNBC—with snide commentary about Fox and Google thrown in —this site has already secured advertisers and will theoretically reach 90 percent of US Internet users. More »
Everyone and Their Mother Teams Up to Form GooTube Competitor
The equivalent of the 1992 US Men's Olympic basketball team has just gotten together to develop a competitor to GooTube. That's right, NBC, Fox, AOL, MSN, MySpace and Yahoo! have united Captain Planet style and formed a web video site not made up of crappy clips people don't want to watch. Broken by CNBC—with snide commentary about Fox and Google thrown in —this site has already secured advertisers and will theoretically reach 90 percent of US Internet users. More »
12:58 PM on Thu Mar 22 2007
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Viacom's Hypocrisy Could Defuse YouTube Lawsuit
Anyone checked out iFilm lately? Ars Technica did, and found several videos that were guilty of copyright infringement. Were any Viacom videos part of that roundup? Nope, because Viacom owns iFilm. Wait, what's that you say? Viacom couldn't possibly own a company that violates others' copyrights because right now they're suing YouTube for a billion dollars for doing just that? More »
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BBC Bringing Crumpets, Three New Channels With Ads to YouTube
Apparently, YouTube's been quite busy behind the scenes, despite being shunned by Viacom. The NYT reports that they've managed to line up over 1,000 partnerships with content providers at a pace of 200 a quarter, most of them smaller, independent outlets. More »
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More Execs Bring the Hate for YouTube
Fresh off the Viacom slap, NBC Universal's Jeff Zucker and News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch lined up to take their shots at GooTube. More »
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YouTube's Stab at Profitability: Premium Content, Google Video Search
When Google bought YouTube there was plenty of speculation as to what the fate of Google Video would be. Well, it looks like some of our questions are finally getting answered. More »
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Apparently the rumor that Google was buying YouTube was less of a rumor than someone on the inside letting it slip out to the entire world. But now that Google's paid $1.65 billion in an all-stock acquisition—which is their most expensive purchase so far—all 67 of YouTube's employees are giving each other naked high fives and bathing in expensive champagne.
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Official: Google Buys YouTube
Apparently the rumor that Google was buying YouTube was less of a rumor than someone on the inside letting it slip out to the entire world. But now that Google's paid $1.65 billion in an all-stock acquisition—which is their most expensive purchase so far—all 67 of YouTube's employees are giving each other naked high fives and bathing in expensive champagne.
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