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Tag: youtube

Jun 23
2010

BREAKING: Judge Dismisses Viacom’s Lawsuit Against Google

News

It’s been three years since Viacom went after YouTube for the Viacom videos being on the site. Today a judge threw out the lawsuit: Today, the court granted our motion for summary judgment in Viacom’s lawsuit with YouTube. This means that the court has decided that YouTube is protected by the safe harbor of the […]

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Apr 21
2010

What Happened To Liberty And Freedom?

Politics

I thought the Tea Party was all about liberty and freedom? Wouldn’t that also mean the freedom to keep you alleged sexuality private? Apparently not: William Gheen, head of the conservative, anti-“amnesty,” anti-illegal immigration group Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC), spoke at a Greenville, S.C. Tea Party rally this weekend and called for Sen. […]

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Mar 24
2010

Tea Baggers Refuse To Take Responsibility

Politics

This exchange between David Shuster and some tea bagger this afternoon on MSNBC pretty much sums up the whole problem; that the tea party refuses to take responsibility for their rhetoric. To make it even more interesting, the tea bagger goes on to blame the rash of vandalism against Democratic members of Congress on Democratic […]

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Mar 18
2010

It Sounds Like Viacom Was Up To Some Dirty Games

Society

In the ongoing lawsuit Viacom has against Google/YouTube, today we get this interesting revelation: For years, Viacom continuously and secretly uploaded its content to YouTube, even while publicly complaining about its presence there. It hired no fewer than 18 different marketing agencies to upload its content to the site. It deliberately “roughed up” the videos […]

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Feb 24
2010

Warning To The Users Of Internet Explorer 6

Science

You are about to get left behind. Starting on March 13th YouTube won’t care about you anymore: Over six months ago, Google announced it would start phasing out support for Internet Explorer 6 on Orkut and YouTube, and started pushing its users to modern browsers. The search giant has now given a specific kill date […]

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Jan 19
2010

The Flawed Haiti Narrative

Media

Not to be surprised, but the media has once again failed to provide the true story. This time their victim is in the history of Haiti. Kris Broughton of Brown Man Thinking Hard has written an excellent blog post giving the true history of Haiti. And is you would like the audio version, check out […]

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Jan 9
2010

Using “National Security” As An Excuse To Forgo Transparency

Society

Last November a document got leaked out, which outlined a new Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) being authored by the Obama administration. The internet part of this is really infuriating: * That ISPs have to proactively police copyright on user-contributed material. This means that it will be impossible to run a service like Flickr or YouTube […]

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Dec 23
2009

President Obama Campaigning In 2007 On The “Public Plan”

Politics

You really think the “tech President” would know about things like the Google and the YouTube before making claims that he never campaigned on a public option: (h/t Aravosis)

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Apr 19
2009

Urging People To Break The Law

Misc

Like it or not, copyright infringement is against the law. So what happens when a copyright holder has their content removed from YouTube? Well if you are a Republican you urge your readers to ignore the law: In the meantime, I encourage every reader with a YouTube account to upload this video to YouTube. I […]

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Apr 9
2009

The AP Has Officially Lost It

Misc

This story, via Kos, has me really scratching my head: Here is another great moment in A.P. history. In its quest to become the RIAA of the newspaper industry, the A.P.’s executives and lawyers are beginning to match their counterparts in the music industry for cluelessness. A country radio station in Tennessee, WTNQ-FM, received a […]

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