The US Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan just ruled that YouTube will have to defend itself from a Viacom lawsuit in court. Viacom sued YouTube in 2007 for $US1 billion, alleging that it was responsible for the huge amount of copyrighted material that was uploaded by YouTube users.
I’ve no idea how many nano-seconds this has before Fox’s lawyers descend on it, but if you’re in the mood for some violence — quite a lot of violence, as it happens — one happy but demented soul has chopped together every Itchy & Scratchy segment from The Simpsons into 48 minutes of explosive glory. Note: May contain traces of cartoon violence.
YouTube is expanding its video manipulation options with a new feature that will automatically fix up your crappy video footage. The edits include colour correction and image stabilisation.
A do-it-yourselfer by the name of technocrat (possibly not their real name) has created this fantastic t-shirt with a working version of the YouTube loading animation that everyone has patiently spent time staring at.
Jim Henson was a man of many, many talents, not the least of which was putting his hand into some felt and making it come alive. He was also somewhat visionary, as this video — which posits something not unlike YouTube — from 1990 shows.
It didn’t exactly clean up at the Oscars, but it’s obvious that Moneyball would have had a far better chance at winning the award for best picture if they’d turned it into a silent black-and-white film with The Artistifier.
A harmless British hippie shot a video about something boring like making a salad from wild greens, and then uploaded it to YouTube. Shortly after, he was informed by YouTube that he was infringing on the copyrights of Rumblefish. The problem is, there’s no music in the clip. At all.
Not all YouTube videos are made equal. Some languish in obscurity, while a tiny percentage rack up millions of hits. If you’ve ever wondered why that is, this explanation by Kevin Allocca, YouTube’s trends manager, is well worth watching.
On March 1, Google will implement its new, unified privacy policy, which will affect data Google has collected on you prior to March 1 as well as data it collects on you in the future.
