Suhit Gupta
04-03-2006, 04:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060330/wr_nm/media_youtube_dc' target='_blank'>http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060330/wr_nm/media_youtube_dc</a><br /><br /></div><i>"The popular online video site YouTube.com, which lets users upload clips and share them with others, is blocking pirated TV and movies by limiting videos to no more than 10 minutes. San Mateo, California-based YouTube, the Web's top destination for "viral" videos spread via word of mouth, has already been forced by broadcaster NBC to remove clips of the popular "Lazy Sunday" hip-hop spoof, which was originally broadcast on "Saturday Night Live." Tens of thousands of videos are submitted to YouTube and about 15 million are viewed every day. Many of the videos are amateur footage, but copyrighted TV and movie clips can easily be found. "We're constantly trying to balance the rights of copyright owners with the rights of our users," YouTube said in a posting on the site. "We did some analysis of the videos in our system over 10 minutes in length, and we found the overwhelming majority of them were full length, copyrighted videos from TV shows and movies.""</i><br /><br />It is a little amusing that YouTube.com is catching up on it only now because this was such a well known fact for quite some time now. Anyways, it is good to see that they are cracking down on it, although it only means that the warez seekers will only find another place to trade. Either way, I have liked the way YouTube.com has operated in the past. Have any of you had any bad experiences with them?