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And The Winner Is? Google

June 25th, 2010

Google’s long and vicious battle with Viacom is at last drawing to an end, as a ruling in favor of a summary judgment threw the match to the search engine. According to Search Engine Land, Viacom had sued YouTube/Google for copyright infringement surrounding the posting of scores of clips of Viacom-owned programming (e.g., Jon Stewart) [...]

 
 

Video Content and Subterfuge

March 20th, 2010

The ongoing battle between Viacom and Google over YouTube uploaded content that violates copyright is reaching fever pitch with accusations thrown left and right. According to The Hollywood Reporters, YouTube execs were part of an ongoing plan to steal and cover up the theft of content- particularly Steve Chen: Steve Chen of YouTube – emailer [...]

 
 

Monetization Efforts at YouTube Continue

February 14th, 2009

Last year YouTube reached the record breaking 100 million visitors mark. There has got to be money buried somewhere in that slush pile of people, and the video sharing site is desperate to find and mine it. They made a start by introducing click-to-but last October, and paired that with sponsored videos. Viacom, however, has [...]

 
 

YouTube and Google Crunching the Numbers – Popcorn, Anyone?

July 16th, 2008

Well, Hulu may be showing full length episodes, but YouTube is still king when it comes to viewership. (Yes, I just made that word up, copyright pending.) Yesterday comScore reported that internet viewers watched 12 billion videos online in May 2008. That’s up 45% from last year! Google laid claim to a full quarter of [...]

 
 

Privacy Issues on the Rise

July 10th, 2008

With the big senate committee meeting and the testimony of ‘chief privacy officers’ and lawyers, the whole privacy issue has been pushed to the fore this past week. Microsoft seems to be keeping their nose pretty clean – of course, they aren’t doing a whole lot, now, are they! Guess they are glad they didn’t [...]