One more sign that YouTube as you know it is dead: the site has quietly purged over 30,000 videos after receiving complaints of copyright infringement. According to a report in the New York Times, nearly 30,000 clips of TV shows, movies and music videos were taken down after the Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, […]

Veeker announced today the Beta launch of a mobile-to-Internet service that lets U.S. consumers publish video content from their mobile phones. According to the company, it is “positioning itself to help these and other consumers evolve their mobile communication habits from audio and text to video.” Mobile videos sent to Veeker are viewable within seconds […]

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has announced a new educational program to raise awareness about the value of copyrights among the over 52,000 Boy Scouts in the greater Los Angeles area. The MPAA worked with the Los Angeles Area Boy Scouts to form a curriculum that met the approval of troop leaders. The […]

Jack Black, international sensation, has created a special infomercial on the subject of music piracy. “Look, super mega rock and roll gods and superstars are just regular dudes like you guys. We punch the clock, we put on the pants and we then we blow people’s minds,” according to Black. “And then these pirates come, […]

NBC Universal today announced that it was laying off hundreds and refocusing its strategy with Internet media in mind. The company‚Äôs new strategy, which they are calling NBCU 2.0, is a wide-ranging strategic initiative to assure future growth, streamline and strengthen operations, and exploit opportunities created by the rapidly evolving digital and global marketplace. ‚ÄúSuccess […]

One more reason YouTube as you know it is dead: YouTube cut deals with the major music labels shortly before closing their deal with Google, giving the music industry ownership stakes in YouTube in exchange for video and music licensing deals. YouTube quietly cut deals with three of the four major RIAA member companies – […]

It looks like the “wild west” days of video sharing may be over. YouTube as you know it is dead. The company plans to remove all videos that infringe on music industry copyrights, and is working with music companies to promote ad-supported distribution of music videos. Now the music industry is going after other video […]

blinkx, a leading video search engine, today unveiled an updated site featuring “video walls”, a new interface for Internet video that combines the ‘sit back and watch’ element of traditional television with the interactive experience of searching and watching video online. Users will also be able to embed topical video walls in to Web pages […]

Blinkx, a developer of video search technology, and Microsoft have inked a deal to use Blinkx techology to enable video searches at MSN and Live.com. “We will be the single biggest video search engine on the Web,” said Suranga Chandratillake, Blinkx co-founder and chief technology officer. Blinkx’s technology already powers video search on a variety […]

The United Nations has hooked up with fake jailbait vlogger lonelygirl15 (actress Jessica Lee Rose) and the producers of the discredited YouTube flog for an ad campaign promoting a UN antipoverty event planned for Sunday. Rose, the actress who plays ‚ÄúBree‚Äù in the Lonelygirl15 videos posted on video-sharing Web site YouTube, will reprise the role […]