Posts Tagged ‘ spam ’

YouTube Yanking 1 In 12 Videos

May 20th, 2008 | By | Category: Citizen Media, Internet TV, Streaming Video, Video

YouTube is removing about 1 in 12 of its popular videos, according to stats collected by YouTomb. YouTomb is tracking the videos because of concerns that YouTube may be pulling videos that may incorporate copyrighted material under fair use. Currently: 223,187 YouTube videos are being monitored by YouTomb; 4,395 of these videos have been taken […]



blubrry Fighting Podspam Problem; Yanks 166 Podcasts

May 16th, 2008 | By | Category: Podcast Directory Sites, Podcast Distribution, Podcasting Networks

blubrry‘s Todd Cochrane announced today that his company was removing more than a hundred podcasts from its service and banning sites because of problems with “podspam”: This morning I instructed our CIO to have all shows that were using a RSS Feed generation service hosted by trafficgeyser.net and mypodfeeds.com to be terminated here at Blubrry.com […]