Litigants trying to get data on what the video site’s users were watching have backed off somewhat, although YouTube will still have to share some data with Viacom.
Plaintiffs Viacom and a class-action group led by the Football Association of England agreed to accept a watered-down version of YouTube’s viewer logs. That version will not include [...]

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Viacom wants to know if anyone with Google or YouTube happened to push some of the content company’s work onto the video sharing site.
Those who have been concerned about privacy and the idea of Viacom perusing YouTube viewing records include a distinct group of insiders, who may have more reason than most to be concerned [...]

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VPPA ignored, EFF claims
As part of the discovery process in the ongoing court fight between Viacom and Google, Viacom gained access to the log data for every video viewed on YouTube.
Somewhere within the Viacom arcology, legal researchers will receive the kind of treasure trove of information that online video rivals to YouTube only dream of [...]

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Call it a characteristic or a problem, but the longest clips YouTube generally allowed only lasted ten minutes.  Now some partners are being encouraged to exceed that and post movie-length videos.
Such things have appeared on YouTube before; the 95-minute “Harold Buttleman, Daredevil Stuntman” showed up almost 11 months ago.  They’ve been extremely rare, though, and [...]

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YouTomb, a site focused on tracking all the videos that have been removed from YouTube for copyright violation, is a research project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The people who created the site are the MIT Free Culture student group. YouTomb says it,”Continually monitors the most popular videos on YouTube for copyright-related takedowns. Any [...]

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YouTube says it is changing the way it deals with users who violate its community guidelines.
The video sharing site says it will no longer treat users “who uploads three videos that violate the Community Guidelines over the span of a year the same as someone who uploads those same videos over the course of a [...]

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For the month of February Google Sites were again the top U.S. video property with nearly 3.6 billion videos viewed (35.4% share of all videos), gaining 1.1 share points over January according to comScore Video Metrix.
U.S. Internet users viewed more than 10 billion videos online during the month, a three percent increase over January and [...]

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It’s hard to believe data about 2007 is still being released, but a new Hitwise report is interesting, nonetheless.  It seems that social networks and YouTube were quite popular last year, with related terms dominating a list of the top ten UK searches.
YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, and a two-word version of YouTube (”you tube”) placed third, [...]

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Yahoo’s Flickr has launched Flickr Video, which allows “pro” accounts to upload 90-second video clips. Flickr’s limit is much lower than Google’s YouTube and is designed to avoid copyright issues. Adobe rolled out Media Player 1.0, based on its Air platform. Adobe’s Media Player 1.0 makes online video available outside a browser.
Adobe’s Flash technology is [...]

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