Recently, there has been an uproar over a new show on Viacom's BET originally called "Hot Ghetto Mess", which was based on a popular underground website of the same name.
As a result of an unexpected consumer backlash against the ...READ»
Viacom announced yesterday that it will pull The Daily Show and The Colbert Report from the most popular online video site, Hulu. Although Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert top Hulu’s charts, Viacom said the shows are...READ»
The Daily Show and The Colbert Report are two of the most popular shows available at Hulu, and have even come to represent the possibilities of the service--personally speaking, I hit up Hulu most mornings specifically to catch ...READ»
NewTeeVee.com reports that Viacom sued YouTube and Google today over the display of copyrighted materials.
Of course, this makes sense with all the pirated material on YouTube....
Another NewTeeVee article may shed extra light on ...READ»
Viacom's general counsel says that suing people for file-sharing is "expensive, and it's painful, and it feels like bullying."
Speaking to a group of Yale law students, Michael Fricklas admitted that "it felt like terrorism" when ...READ»
Elizabeth Stark is cofounder of Open Video Alliance, visiting fellow at the Yale Information Society Project, and lecturer in Computer Science at Yale University. FastCompany.com spoke to her about the need to keep online videos from becoming just like television.READ»
Google has just released its first-quarter results and, unsurprisingly, they show that the search engine giant is still making healthy profits, despite the slight cock-up of the Nexus One launch and the China debacle. Profits were up ...READ»
The Viacom v. YouTube case has been loud and ugly, and some might have expected a long, drawn-out legal decision. Not so--the court ruled somewhat surprisingly in favor of YouTube.READ»
Viacom has reached a deal with Joost, which will allow content from its networks including MTV, BET and Paramount pictures to be shown on Joost for free, according to Reuters. This marriage with Joost, a site that allows viewers to ...READ»
Google Steps More Boldly Into PayPal’s Territory
"Steven Grossberg, who sells video games online from his home in Wellington, Fla., recently sent an enticing offer to 20,000 customers: $10 off any purchase over $30 using a new ...READ»
Viacom is treating YouTube like a copyright infringer, but there's an easy win-win scenario: advertising barter and a per-subscriber fee. All Viacom needs to do is to think of YouTube as just another ad-supported distribution ...READ»
The U.S. District Court has just made public the documentation in the controversial Viacom vs. YouTube case. It's a goldmine of data, most of which is really dirty mud-slinging by Viacom, based on internal emails from YouTube's ...READ»
MTV2's broadcast of an animated version of rapper Snoop Dogg accompanied by two bikini-clad black women in neck collars and chains squatting on all fours and defecating on the floor has drawn the ire of leading African-Americans and ...READ»
Is 83-year-old media-mogul Sumner Redstone the crypt keeper of a dying behemoth being dragged into the 21st century kicking and screaming (and suing), or a shrewd old man making would-be Web partners dance his hokey-pokey?
The ...READ»
A fortnight after Viacom flooded YouTube with 100,000 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notices its problems continue unabated. In the past two weeks Viacom has chosen to hitch a ride with Joost. Copyrighted content from the ...READ»
The First crew of the starship Enterprise shall fly no more. Paramount has announced they are canceling the most recent iteration of the Star Trek franchise and will not bring the show back for a fifth season. This version featured ...READ»
In the past week YouTube and MySpace have taken steps to reduce the copyrighted content on their websites. But that is where the similarity ends. While YouTube has been forced by Viacom to take down its copyrighted content, MySpace ...READ»
Yesterday, a white hat hacker (the good kind) made the public data from 100 million Facebook profiles available to everyone. Today, somebody found out who's interested in it. The names include Apple, Disney, the Church of Scientology, Halliburton, and the UN.READ»
Poor YouTube. It seems that this innovative idea that once attracted the world's amateur filmmakers to put their work out there for the world to see has become a target since it's purchase by behemoth search-provider Google, dooming ...READ»
