Remember “Don’t Copy That Floppy,” the anti-software-piracy video that warned ’90s-era kids away from copyright infringement?
The nearly 10-minute clip features two classroom gamers who flirt with making a duplicate disk so they can continue playing after school. A rapper appears onscreen and tells them the error of their ways.
YouTube, CBS, NBC, ABC are going to have an awful lot in common in the not too distant future.
Google Inc.’s YouTube is in discussions with major movie studios about allowing users to stream movies on a rental basis, according to people familiar with the company’s plans, marking one of the video giant’s first moves towards charging for content instead of making it available for free with advertising.
In a vault beneath the British Library here, Jeremy Leighton John grapples with a formidable challenge in digital life. Dr. John, the library’s first curator of eManuscripts, is working on ways to archive the deluge of computer data swamping scientists so that future generations can authenticate today’s discoveries and better understand the people who made them.
Taxpayers looking for advice might be only a YouTube clip away.
The Internal Revenue Service recently unveiled their YouTube channel, irsvideos. The 12 videos have information about claiming recovery rebate credits and other tax tips.
“It’s another way for us to get information out to taxpayers,” says Terry Lemons, a spokesperson for the IRS.
More than 100 million U.S. users watch an average of 68 videos each on YouTube every month, according to comScore. How can YouTube get them to watch just a few more?
It’s a challenge that YouTube’s engineers are zeroing in on as they try to unlock more revenue from the online video juggernaut.
Security firm Symantec has identified the top 100 searches conducted by children online.
While the occasional wedding-dance entrance, skateboarding bulldog or Novocained kid makes a YouTube splash, most Internet users are still watching standard television when they go online, a new survey says.
You would think that if anyone were making boatloads of money from Internet video, it would be high-traffic porn sites. You would be wrong.
Add online video to the places where the battle over health care is playing out. The White House posted an online response to a video that’s been viewed hundreds of thousands of times since it was linked from the Drudge Report. The Drudge Report linked to a YouTube video posted by Naked Emperor News. Titled “Shock Uncovered: Obama in His Own Words Saying His Health Care Plan Will Eliminate Private Insurance,” it includes clips of comments President Barack Obama has made, such as “I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer universal health-care plan.”
What does the TV network of the future look like? A version of it is coming into focus at New York-based startup blip.tv.
Blip.tv announced a slew of distribution deals with both new-media and old-media companies, including NBC and YouTube, that it hopes will expand the reach of its online programming.
Like many teenagers, Josh Wilson, the 13-year-old son of the New York venture capitalist Fred Wilson, has on occasion visited the Internet’s peer-to-peer file-sharing services to download music and television shows.
There’s a video on YouTube of the world’s greatest basketball player getting humiliated at his own basketball camp.
In the past few months, two of the highest-profile and most heavily-funded online-video startups–Veoh and Joost–have given up trying to compete with Hulu and YouTube and have now drastically switched their business models in hopes of surviving.
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