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YouTomb, Where YouTube Videos go to Die
YouTomb is a research project by MIT Free Culture that tracks videos taken down from YouTube for alleged copyright violation. When a user-submitted video is is suspected of copyright infringement the rights holder can submit a DMCA takedown notification that Youtube respects, generally with no questions asked. Because of the general lack of transparency shown [...]
Google Video pulls plug, leaving you with junk
It’s not often that Google kills off one of its services, especially one which was announced with much fanfare at a big mainstream event like CES 2006. Yet Google Video’s commercial aspirations have indeed been terminated: the company has announced that it will no longer be selling video content on the site. The news [...]
Seek and yee shall find with Seeqpod
Ready for the next RIAA target? Seeqpod is a search engine specializing in media files, copyrighted or not, that are hosted on the Web. The service is interesting but one has to wonder how long can it last? While being a search engine and not technically housing the material, it does allow you to play [...]
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