US Army Block MySpace and YouTube

May 14, 2007 · Filed Under Uncategorized · 2 Comments 

US Army Block MySpace and YouTube

It appears thats the US Army is blocking access to site like YouTube and MySpace, reason being that it hogs bandwidth and it is a threat to the army security if any important data leaks, which is yet to be seen or hear of.

I find this ironic, considering the fact that US is the champion of freedom of speech, on top of that military personal uses these site to keep in touch with their friends and relatives, cutting off them is like cutting off their oxygen, sure there is always email, but email don’t provide the same service.

Army Times has this to say:

“This is as much an information war as it is bombs and bullets,” he said. “And they are muzzling their best voices.”

MySpace and YouTube are not the only victims, other sites covered by the ban are the video-sharing sites Metacafe, IFilm, StupidVideos, and FileCabi, the social networking sites BlackPlanet and Hi5, music sites Pandora, MTV, and 1.fm, and live365, and the photo-sharing site Photobucket.

What happen to sites like Friendster or Flickr?

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YouTube Sued Again

May 5, 2007 · Filed Under Silicon Valley · Comment 

YouTube faces another 'Copyright infringement' lawsuit

YouTube faces another ‘Copyright infringement’ lawsuit, this time it is the England’s top soccer league and an independent U.S. music publisher. No amount of compensation was claimed but this won’t be the end, Google made a big mistake by purchasing YouTube together with all those illegal content, but according to Google general counsel Kent Walker said, “These suits simply misunderstand the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which balances the rights of copyright holders against the need to protect internet communications and content.

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Viacom to sue Google and YouTube for USD1Billion

March 13, 2007 · Filed Under Uncategorized · Comment 

Viacom to sue Google and YouTube for USD1BillionThe owner of MTV Networks decided to sue Google and YouTube for copyright violation, this would be an interesting court case and the out come would definitely change the way people share videos online. I still couldn’t figure it out why would Google buy YouTube when they know this sort of things would come, let YouTbe battle the court case and then bail them out like what happen to napster, provided the price is right.

Viacom’s claim says almost 160,000 unauthorized snippets of Viacom shows have been viewed more than 1.5 billion times on YouTube. Viacom also owns Paramount Pictures movie studios and the Nickelodeon cable network.

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Guy Commits Crime, Posts On YouTube

October 27, 2006 · Filed Under Hollywood, Movies and Gossips · 2 Comments 

Most petty crimes are done by dumb people and this is a case of an 18-year old teenager from Wales. What he did what swipes pair of glasses off a charity worker and then post the video on YouTube. Which eventually lead to his arrest by authorities.

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