Google to screen YouTube videos for copyright: related news

Poll: Do you use YouTube videos on your Web pages?

YouTube makes it easy to post videos on the Web and on Web pages. Plus, by using YouTube, you don't have to worry about bandwidth charges to your Web server. But there are drawbacks to YouTube. It can be difficult to share private videos and if you make your video public, you could end up with comments that are disagreeable as well. Then there are the rules that you have to agree to to use YouTube. Finally, with the latest ruling against Google, YouTube might not be as palatable for posting Web videos - especially with your privacy at risk.

YouTomb Catalogs YouTube Videos Removed Over Copyrights

Los Angeles - A group at MIT called Free Culture has created a project called YouTomb, which aims to amass a listing of all videos removed from YouTube (NASD: GOOG) due to allegations of copyright infringement or other reasons, the Google Operating System blog reported. "Any information available in the metadata is retained, including who issued the complaint and how long the video was up before takedown. The goal of the project is to identify how YouTube recognizes potential copyright violations as well as to aggregate mistakes made by the algorithm," reads a note on the site. YouTomb is currently monitoring 157,340 videos, and has identified 4,389 videos taken down for alleged copyright violations, and 13,330 taken down for other reasons.

The End of Internet Privacy? A Look at the Viacom-Google Order

Last week, in the context of Viacom’s $1 billion copyright suit against Google’s YouTube, U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton ordered Google to turn over to Viacom its records of which users watched which videos on YouTube. To give you an idea of how many users might be affected by the order, the WSJ reports that, according to comScore, Google sites, which include YouTube, were the top U.S. video property in April, with more than 4.1 billion videos viewed, or 38% of all online videos. (Here’s more on the order from the NYT.)

Google Wins Agreement To Anonymize YouTube Logs

Barence, following up on yesterday's news that Viacom is looking for videos uploaded by Google staff, links to an article at PC Pro, excerpting: "Google and Viacom have reached a deal to protect the privacy of millions of YouTube watchers. Earlier this month, a New York federal judge ordered Google to turn over YouTube user data to Viacom and other plaintiffs to help them prepare a confidential study of what they argue are vast piracy violations on the video-sharing site. Google claims it had now agreed to provide plaintiffs' attorneys with a version of a massive viewership database that blanks out YouTube usernames and IP addresses that could be used to identify individual video watchers."

Google to screen YouTube videos for copyright

YouTube will launch a system in September designed to prevent copyright-infringing material from going up on the site, a Google lawyer said in court on Friday.

Google Earth, Now With Browser Goodness

Google announced this week that their Google Earth application can now be used from the browser, instead of having to download and install the desktop application. "Google also launched an JavaScript API that lets you interact with the globe, draw markers, add layers or integrate with Google Maps. 'The Google Earth Plug-in and its APIs let you embed the full power of Google Earth and its 3D rendering capabilities into your web pages.' Google LatLong blog announced that each Google Maps mashup can take advantage of the new 3D view by adding a single line of code. 'Our goal is to open up the entire core of Google Earth to developers in the hopes that you'll build the next great geo-based 3D application, and change how we view the world.'"

YouTube Refuses To Remove Terrorist Videos

hhavensteincw writes "YouTube has declined a request from Sen. Joe Lieberman remove videos from terrorist organizations. Lieberman said that the videos made by groups like Al-Qaeda show assassinations, attacks on US soldiers leading to injuries and death, and weapons training, 'incendiary' speeches, and other material intended to 'encourage violence against the West.' YouTube said that while it removed some of the videos highlighted by the Senator, most were allowed to stay because they did not violate YouTube's community guidelines. YouTube went on to note that they are strong supporters of free speech."

Court Ruling Compels Google to Release YouTube Log

July 4, 2008 – (HOSTSEARCH.COM) – A recent court ruling has compelled Google to release its YouTube log containing the IP addresses of millions of users around the world. The log also indentifies which videos were accessed by a particular IP address. The ruling was made by US District Court judge Louis Stanton, who is hearing Viacom’s action against YouTube’s alleged copyright infringement. YouTube, a service intended for ‘original videos’, did not prevent copyrighted materials being loaded onto its’ severs, the company claims.

YouTube Must Give All User Histories To Viacom

psyopper writes "Google will have to turn over every record of every video watched by YouTube users, including users' names and IP addresses, to Viacom, which is suing Google for allowing clips of its copyright videos to appear on YouTube, a judge ruled Wednesday. Although Google argued that turning over the data would invade its users' privacy, the judge's ruling (.pdf) described that argument as "speculative" and ordered Google to turn over the logs on a set of four tera-byte hard drives."

Delving Into Google Health's Privacy Concerns

SecureThroughObscure writes "Security researcher Robert 'RSnake' Hansen discusses numerous concerns with Google's new Google Health application, which aims to integrate user's medical records online. We discussed Google Health's opening to the public earlier this week. RSnake mentions that Google has found a loophole allowing them to provide this service without having to follow HIPAA regulations, which, combined with Google's track record of having numerous flaws leading to private information disclosure, draws serious concern. Security researcher Nate McFeters of ZDNet's Zero-Day Security Blog also commented on the article, mentioning several past vulnerabilities: ownership of content issues, Google Docs theft, a cross-domain hole, Google XSS, and a Google Picasa protocol handler issue leading to the theft of user images.

Google's YouTube lets promoters target popular clips

Google, seeking to diversify beyond four-line text advertisements, is matching clients' promotions with the most popular video clips on YouTube. The buzz-targeting program flags clips based on the number of viewers, users' ratings and how many people tag them as a favorite, Google said Tuesday in a statement. Google is betting on video ads to curb its reliance on the text links that provide the bulk of its $16.6 billion in annual sales. Almost 85 million people in the United States watched a total of 4.3 billion videos on YouTube in March, market researcher ComScore said yesterday. Lions Gate Entertainment was the first client to use buzz targeting to promote the movie "The Forbidden Kingdom," which was released last month.

Piracy vs. Privacy

Google's YouTube is probably a stomach ache for the company. Recently I wrote about Sen. Liebermann and his demand that YouTube take down videos. Now Google finished a court date with media giant Viacom over copyright violations. The net result: Google has to surrender 12 terabytes of data on user searches. Already people are talking about the implications of this, and whether it is an invasion of privacy. In my opinion Viacom is getting a large test run of Google Ad Planner, the new marketing tool released by Google.

Judge Orders Google to Provide YouTube User Data to Viacom

New York - The federal judge presiding over Viacom's (NYSE: VIA) $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit against YouTube on Thursday ruled that Google (NASD: GOOG) will not have to turn over source code for its search technology for the proceedings, but will have to provide user data on who viewed which videos on YouTube, as well as copies of every video ever removed from the site for copyright violations, or any other reason.

Viacom's New Argument Against YouTube: Embedding Videos Removes Safe Harbors

While we already discussed Google's latest response to Viacom's lawsuit against YouTube, Cynthia Brumfeld has picked up on an interesting point that's been overlooked: Viacom's amended complaint includes a slightly different argument as to why Google/YouTube are not protected by the DMCA's safe harbors, effectively claiming that YouTube takes an active role in transmitting the content. This is somewhat similar to an earlier argument that some made that YouTube is disqualified from the safe harbors because it transforms video from its original format into flash, but stretches it even further.

Google's proprietary approach to software slows down acquisitions, claims TechCrunch

Google buys a lot of software companies -- YouTube, Blogger, Picasa, GrandCentral, Keyhole (Google Earth), Writely (Google Docs), JotSpot (Google Sites), Dodgeball etc -- but there's a tendency for them to stagnate. Nik Cubrilovic at TechCrunch IT reckons this is because of Google's proprietary software stack. In Why Google Slows Down Acquired Companies, he says:

Google Makes Content Available on your TV

Google has announced that it has a new Windows application which makes it possible to access all of your Google content on your television using a DLNA device such as a PlayStation 3. It's named Google Media Server and works on any PC running the Google Desktop, allowing things like YouTube videos and Picasa photos to be viewable on your television. This has led some to suggest that the Google Set-Top Box could be the next big thing announced by the company.

Google Adsense - Money Generator

Google adsense are ads that are shown on your site. They can be small text ads or images. Google gets paid by their advertisers and in turn pays you each time someone clicks on the ad. Google adsense is a great way to make money from your website traffic. It is possible to make a sizable income from these little ads but many do not realize the potential of these little gems. Setting up: Go to https://www.google.com/adsense 1. Set up an account 2. Decide what sort of ad format you want 3. Insert the html in your website 15 Tips for making the most profit from your Google Adsense: Google has many tools check them all and see which ones will work for you. 1. Filtering your competition - Google allows you to filter out up to 200 URL from being shown on your site 2.

Google responds to Viacom's copyright lawsuit against YouTube

NEW YORK, A $1-billion copyright infringement lawsuit challenging YouTube's ability to keep copyrighted material off its popular video-sharing site threatens how hundreds of millions of people exchange all kinds of information on the Internet, YouTube owner Google Inc. said.

Google responds to Viacom's copyright lawsuit against YouTube

NEW YORK - A $1-billion copyright infringement lawsuit challenging YouTube's ability to keep copyrighted material off its popular video-sharing site threatens how hundreds of millions of people exchange all kinds of information on the Internet, YouTube owner Google Inc. said.

Google responds to Viacom's copyright lawsuit against YouTube

NEW YORK - A $1-billion copyright infringement lawsuit challenging YouTube's ability to keep copyrighted material off its popular video-sharing site threatens how hundreds of millions of people exchange all kinds of information on the Internet, YouTube owner Google Inc. said.

Google responds to Viacom's copyright lawsuit against YouTube

NEW YORK - A $1-billion copyright infringement lawsuit challenging YouTube's ability to keep copyrighted material off its popular video-sharing site threatens how hundreds of millions of people exchange all kinds of information on the Internet, YouTube owner Google Inc. said.

Google responds to Viacom's copyright lawsuit against YouTube

NEW YORK - A $1-billion copyright infringement lawsuit challenging YouTube's ability to keep copyrighted material off its popular video-sharing site threatens how hundreds of millions of people exchange all kinds of information on the Internet, YouTube owner Google Inc. said.

Google vs. Leviathan

What does Google have in common with punk rock and video games? If Sen. Joe Lieberman's latest Quixotic moral crusade is any indicator, then Google is bedfellows with the Senator's previous attempts on expressive freedom. Sen. Lieberman believes Google is playing host to “terrorists� by allowing al-Qaeda videos to remain on YouTube, saying that they are in direction violation of YouTube's terms of service. The reality is that the videos are valuable articles of information and Sen. Lieberman has been very wrong on what constitutes “freedom� in the past, even supporting “terrorists� himself.

Google Forced To Give Viacom Video Logs, But Can Keep Search Source Code

Mountain View (CA) - Viacom won a significant victory in their $1 billion copyright infringement case against Google/YouTube. Google has been ordered to hand over terabytes of video search information that shows the details of every video ever played on YouTube. However Google did dodge a huge bullet as Judge Louis Stanton denied Viacom’s request for source code to Google’s search engine.

Google Search Ranking Secrets Revealed

Wouldn't it be great to understand exactly how Google decides to rank websites? And wouldn't it be even better if the information on Google search rankings came from a true ''insider'' at Google? Well if the Google blog is to be believed, the company has begun an effort to do just that. Udi Manber, a Vice President of Engineering at Google is part of the team called 'Search Quality'. Search Quality is the name of the team responsible for the ranking of Google search results. That is, when you type a search query into the search box at Google and hit enter, the Search Quality team is responsible to decide within a fraction of a second which among the billions of pages on the web to display, and in what order.

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