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YouTube is a popular video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. YouTube was created in mid February 2005 by three former PayPal employees. The San Bruno-based service uses Adobe Flash technology to display a wide variety of video content, including movie clips, TV clips and music videos, as well as amateur content such as videoblogging and short original videos. In October 2006, Google Inc. announced that it had reached a deal to acquire the company for US$1.65 billion in Google stock. The deal closed on November 13, 2006.[1] Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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Unregistered users can watch most videos on the site, while registered users are permitted to upload an unlimited number of videos. Related videos, determined by title and tags, appear onscreen to the right of a given video. In YouTube's second year, functions were added to enhance user ability to post video 'responses' and subscribe to content feeds. For a proposal for tagging in Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Microformats#MediaWiki issues A tag cloud with terms related to Web 2. ...
History
 YouTube's early headquarters in San Mateo YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, who were all early employees of PayPal.[2] Prior to PayPal, Hurley studied design at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Chen and Karim studied computer science together at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.[3] The domain name "YouTube.com" was activated on February 15, 2005,[4] and the website was developed over the subsequent months. The creators offered the public a preview of the site in May 2005, six months before YouTube made its official debut. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1536x1152, 548 KB) Summary The headquarters of YouTube are on the second floor of this modest brick building in downtown San Mateo, California. ...
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 YouTube's current headquarters in San Bruno Like many technology startups, YouTube was started as an angel-funded enterprise from a makeshift office in a garage. In November 2005, venture firm Sequoia Capital invested an initial $3.5 million;[5] additionally, Roelof Botha, partner of the firm and former CFO of PayPal, joined the YouTube board of directors. In April 2006, Sequoia put an additional $8 million into the company, which had experienced huge popular growth within its first few months.[6] Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (1536 × 1152 pixel, file size: 556 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) YouTube headquarters at 1000 Cherry Avenue in San Bruno, California. ...
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During the summer of 2006, YouTube was one of the fastest growing websites on the Web,[7] and was ranked the 5th most popular website on Alexa, far outpacing even MySpace's rate of growth.[8] According to a July 16, 2006 survey, 100 million video clips are viewed daily on YouTube, with an additional 65,000 new videos uploaded every 24 hours. The website averages nearly 20 million visitors per month, according to Nielsen/NetRatings,[9] where around 44% are female, 56% male, and the 12- to 17-year-old age group is dominant.[10] YouTube's preeminence in the online video market is staggering. According to the website Hitwise.com, YouTube commands up to 64% of the UK online video market.[11] WWWs historical logo designed by Robert Cailliau The World Wide Web is a system of interlinked, hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. ...
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On October 9, 2006, it was announced that the company would be purchased by Google for US$1.65 billion in stock. The purchase agreement between Google and YouTube came after YouTube presented three agreements with media companies in an attempt to escape the threat of copyright-infringement lawsuits. YouTube will continue operating independently, with its co-founders and 67 employees working within the company.[12] The deal to acquire YouTube closed on November 13, and was, at the time, Google's second largest acquisition.[13] Image File history File links WikiNews-Logo. ...
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Media recognition Within a relatively short time, YouTube has experienced much well-publicized growth, fueled primarily by online word-of-mouth. The website received an early surge of publicity when it hosted the popular Saturday Night Live short Lazy Sunday.[14] However, YouTube's official policy prohibits submission of copyrighted material, and NBC Universal, owners of SNL, soon decided to take action. Saturday Night Live (SNL) is a weekly late night 91-minute American comedy-variety show based in New York City that has been broadcast live by NBC on Saturday nights since October 11, 1975. ...
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In February 2006, NBC asked for the removal of some of its copyrighted content from YouTube, including Lazy Sunday and 2006 Olympics clips.[5][15] The following month, in an attempt to strengthen its policy against copyright infringement, YouTube set a 10-minute maximum limit on video runtime. Although earlier users were grandfathered in to download longer videos, new members cannot upload videos over 10 minutes long, regardless of membership status. (It should be noted, however, that the actual cutoff time is 10:58).[citation needed] The restriction can easily be circumvented by uploaders, who simply split the original video into smaller segments, each under the '10-minute' maximum. The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ...
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Though YouTube complied with NBC's demands, the incident made the news, garnering the website even more publicity. As YouTube continued growing in popularity, NBC began to realize the website's possibilities, and announced, in June 2006, a strategic partnership with YouTube. Under the deal, an official NBC channel was set up on YouTube, showcasing promotional clips for the series The Office. YouTube will also promote NBC videos on its site.[16] This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
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CBS, which had also asked YouTube to remove several of its clips, followed NBC's example in July 2006. In a statement indicative of how traditional media's perception of YouTube (and similar sites) has changed, Sean McManus, president of CBS News and Sports noted: CBS Broadcasting, Inc. ...
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| “ | Our inclination now is, the more exposure we get from clips like that, the better it is for CBS News and the CBS television network, so in retrospect we probably should have embraced the exposure, and embraced the attention it was bringing CBS, instead of being parochial and saying ‘let’s pull it down.’[17] | ” | In August 2006, YouTube announced its goal, within 18 months, to offer every music video ever made, while remaining free of charge. Warner Music Group and EMI have confirmed that they are among the companies in talks to implement the plan.[18] In September 2006, Warner Music and YouTube signed a deal, in which the website will be allowed to host every Warner music video while sharing a portion of the advertisement income. Moreover, user-created videos on YouTube will be allowed to use Warner songs in their soundtracks.[19] This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
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On January 29, 2007, YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley announced that the online video service will pay its active user-contributors (who should actually be the true copyright owners) a portion of the website's advertising revenue. However, at the World Economic Forum, Hurley did not mention an exact amount of money that YouTube will pay the contributors.[21] January 29 is the 29th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Channel Type Members of youtube.com are offered to be apart of groups called "Channel Types" that make their channel more distinctive. The Types are: You Tuber, a general viewer of youtube. Director Movie makers displying their videos for youtube viewers. Musician Musicians or bands covering songs or displaying originals or giving lessons on songs, scales, chords,ect. Comedian Comedians displaying their comedy bits for youtube viewers. Look up director in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
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Press coverage Time featured a YouTube screen with a foil mirror as its annual 'Person of the Year', citing user-created media such as YouTube's, and featuring the site's originators along with several content creators. The Wall Street Journal and New York Times have also reviewed posted content on YouTube, and its effects upon corporate communications and recruitment in 2006. PC World Magazine named YouTube the 9th of the Top 10 Best Products of 2006.[22] In 2007, both Sports Illustrated and Dime Magazine featured stellar reviews of a basketball highlight video entitled, The Ultimate Pistol Pete Maravich MIX.[23] Because of its acquisition by Google, it is sometimes referred to as "GooTube."[23] Time (whose trademark is capitalized TIME) is a weekly American newsmagazine, similar to Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report. ...
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Revenue model Before being purchased by Google, YouTube declared that its business model was advertisement-based, making 15 million dollars per month as such. Some industry commentators have speculated that YouTube's running costs — specifically the bandwidth required — may be as high as 5 to 6 million USD per month,[24] thereby fueling criticisms that the company, like many Internet startups, did not have a viably implemented business model. Advertisements were launched on the site beginning in March 2006. In April, YouTube started using Google AdSense[citation needed]. YouTube subsequently stopped using AdSense but has resumed in local regions. March 2006 : ↠- January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Fijian Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase announces that the 2006 Fiji general elections will be held in the second week of May 2006 from the 6th to the 13th. ...
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Europe arrival On June 19, 2007, Eric E. Schmidt was in Paris to launch the new localization system. The entire interface of the website is now available with localized versions in numerous countries (Brazil, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Poland, Spain and The United Kingdom). Google aims to compete with local videosharing websites like DailyMotion in France. It also made an agreement with local television stations like M6 and France Télévisions to legally broadcast video content. Google also plans to localize in Germany in the future. is the 170th day of the year (171st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Copyright infringement YouTube policy does not allow content to be uploaded by anyone not permitted by United States copyright law, and the company frequently removes uploaded infringing content. Nonetheless, a large amount of infringing content continues to be uploaded (e.g., television shows/clips, film clips, commercials, music videos, music concerts, M.U.G.E.N, emulator hacks, or games republished onto another system such as PSP). Generally speaking, unless a copyright holder reports them, YouTube only discovers these videos via indications within the YouTube community through self-policing. YouTube generally identifies video content through search terms that uploaders associate with clips. Some deceptive users create alternative search terms when uploading specific file types (similar to the deliberate misspelling of band names on MP3 filesharing networks). For a brief time, members could also report on one another. The flagging feature, intended as a means of reporting questionable content, has been subject to considerable abuse; for a time, some users were flagging other users' original content for copyright violations out of spite. YouTube proceeded to remove copyright infringement from the list of flaggable offenses. United States copyright law governs the legally enforceable rights of creative and artistic works in the United States. ...
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Hollywood remains divided on YouTube, as "'the marketing guys love YouTube and the legal guys hate it.'"[25] Further, American cinema has had a profound effect on cinema across the world since the early 20th century. ...
While lawyers are demanding filtering technology, many Hollywood execs actually enjoy the fact that YouTube only takes down clips when they request it. "If I found part of a successful show up on YouTube today, I'd probably pull it down immediately .... If I had a show that wasn't doing so well in the ratings and could use the promotion, I wouldn't be in a rush to do that."[25] Content owners are not just targeting YouTube for copyright infringements, but are also targeting third party websites that link to infringing content on YouTube and other video-sharing sites. For example QuickSilverScreen vs. Fox[26] Daily Episodes vs. Fox[27] and Columbia vs. Slashfilm.[28] The liability of linking remains a grey area with cases for and against. The law in the U.S. currently leans towards website owners being liable for infringing links[29] although they are often protected by the DMCA providing they take down infringing content when issued with a takedown notice. However, a recent court ruling in the U.S. found Google not liable for linking to infringing content (Perfect 10 v. Google, Inc.). The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a controversial United States copyright law which criminalizes production and dissemination of technology that can circumvent measures taken to protect copyright, not merely infringement of copyright itself, and heightens the penalties for copyright infringement on the Internet. ...
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Examples of infringement complaints On October 5, 2006, the Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers (JASRAC) finalized their copyright complaints regarding Japanese media on YouTube. Thousands of media from popular Japanese artists (such as Tokyo Jihen and other music including Jpop) were removed. is the 278th day of the year (279th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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JASRAC (Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers) was established in 1939 as a non-profit making organization, and is the largest musical copyright administration society in Japan. ...
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When CBS and Universal Music Group signed agreements to provide content on YouTube, they announced a new technology to help them find and remove copyrighted material.[20]
TV journalist Robert Tur filed the first lawsuit against the company in the summer of 2006, alleging copyright infringement for hosting a number of famous news clips without permission. The case has yet to be resolved.[30][31] To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...
On November 9, 2006, Artie Lange said that his lawyer were in talks with YouTube, after Lange learned that his entire DVD, It's the Whiskey Talking, was available for free on the website. He added that he will either demand money from them, or will sue.[32] is the 313th day of the year (314th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Viacom and the British Broadcasting Corporation both demanded YouTube to take down more than 200,000 videos.[33] Viacom (NYSE: VIA) (NYSE: VIAb) is an American media conglomerate with various worldwide interests in cable and satellite television networks (MTV Networks and BET), and movie production and distribution (the Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks movie studios). ...
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Viacom announced it was suing YouTube, and its owner Google, for more than $1 billion in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Viacom claims that YouTube over 160,000 of their videos posted on the website without their permission.[34][35] Image File history File links WikiNews-Logo. ...
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Use of acoustic fingerprints On October 12, 2006, YouTube announced that because of recent agreements with high-profile content creators, they now required to use antipiracy software, which uses an audio-signature technology that can detect a low-quality copy of licensed video. YouTube would have to substitute an approved version of any clip or remove the material immediately. Industry analysts speculated that removal of content with such a system might reduce overall user satisfaction.[36] This is frustrating for viewers who upload anime music videos, because most AMVs use licensed music content; however, this music is often acquired illegally as well.[36] is the 285th day of the year (286th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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On April 16, 2007, Google's CEO Eric E. Schmidt presented a keynote speech at the NAB Convention in Las Vegas. During the Q&A session, Schmidt announced that YouTube was close to enacting a content filtering system to remove infringing content from the service. The new system, called "Claim Your Content", will automatically identify copyrighted material for removal.[37] is the 106th day of the year (107th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Google spokesperson Ricardo Reyes stated on June 13, 2007 that the company was seeking "a way to make video identification technology a reality" when they began to test the system in the next few days.[38][39] is the 164th day of the year (165th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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On June 1, 2006, the evening ITV News bulletin reported that YouTube and similar sites were encouraging violence among teenagers, who were recording fights on mobile phones. In July 2007, a similar incident happened at a school in Hayling Island, U.K.[40] Cyber bullying (cyberbullying, cyber-bullying, online bullying) is the use of electronic information and communication devices such as e-mail, instant messaging, text messages, mobile phones, pagers and defamatory websites to bully or otherwise harass an individual or group through personal attacks or other means, and it may constitute a...
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White House National Drug Control involvement In September 2006, the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) began running anti-drug messages through the YouTube System.[41] In response, many YouTube users began uploading rebuttals and low rating the public service announcements. Consequently, since mid-September, the ONDCP has removed the ability to evaluate any of their messages. The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), a component of the Executive Office of the President of the United States, was established in 1988 by the Anti-Drug Abuse Act. ...
New York Times reports anti-U.S. attack videos On October 5, 2006, The New York Times reported on the proliferation of what they considered to be anti-U.S. Iraqi insurgent attack videos on YouTube.[42] is the 278th day of the year (279th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Political campaigning Political candidates for the 2008 U.S. Presidential election have been using YouTube as an outlet for advertising their candidacies. Voters can view candidate statements and make videos supporting (or opposing) presidential candidates (e.g., videos for Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton and Ron Paul).[43] [44] The U.S. media has often commented that YouTube played a significant role in the 2006 defeat of Republican Senator George Allen due to a video clip of him making allegedly racist remarks that was continuously replayed by YouTube viewers during the campaign.[45] [46] [47] [48] [49] Political commentators such as James Kotecki have also joined the YouTube world of politics. Many commentators make videos on YouTube critiquing a presidential candidate's YouTube videos, or simply using YouTube as a medium to get their opinions heard. Recently, French and Italian politicians, such as Antonio Di Pietro, have also been using the site as part of their campaigns. Barack Hussein Obama (born August 4, 1961) is the junior United States Senator from Illinois and a member of the Democratic Party. ...
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In the run up to the 2008 Presidential elections, CNN aired a debate in which candidates fielded questions selected from a pool submitted by users of YouTube. Because of the use of technology to aggregate questions from a wide range of constituents, the forum has been referred to as "most democratic Presidential Debate ever"[50] This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
Banning - Brazilian model lawsuit and subsequent banning
YouTube is being sued by Brazilian model and MTV VJ Daniela Cicarelli (better known as Ronaldo's ex-fiancée) on the grounds that the site is making available a video footage made by a paparazzo, in which she and her boyfriend are having sex on a Spanish beach. The lawsuit requires that YouTube be blocked in Brazil until all copies of the video are removed. On Saturday, January 6, 2007, a legal injunction ordered that filters be put in place to prevent users in Brazil from accessing the website.[51][52] The MTV logo. ...
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The effectiveness of the measure has been questioned, since the video is available not only on YouTube, but rather has become an Internet phenomenon. On Tuesday, January 9, 2007, the same court overturned their previous decision, ordering the filters removed, although the footage itself remained forbidden, but without technical support for its blockage.[53] After the banning of YouTube in Brazil there has been a website called brtube.com as an unofficial replacement for YouTube in Brazil. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
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- Iran
On December 3, 2006, Iran blocked YouTube, along with several other sites, after declaring them "immoral". The YouTube ban came after a video was posted online that appears to show an Iranian soap opera star having sex.[54] is the 337th day of the year (338th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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- Morocco
On May 25, 2007 the state-owned Maroc Telecom blocked all access to YouTube.[55] There were no reasons given as to why YouTube was blocked, but speculations are that it might have something to do with some posted pro-separatist group Polisario clips (Polisario being the Western Sahara independence movement) or because of some videos criticizing King Mohammed VI. The government ban did not concern the other two private internet-providers, Wana and Meditel. YouTube became accessible again on May 30, 2007 after Maroc Telecom unofficially announced that the denied access to the website was a mere "technical glitch".[56] Maroc Telecom (Arabic: ; Ittisalat Al Maghrib; Acronym: IAM) is the main telecommunication company in Morocco. ...
The Polisario, Polisario Front, or Frente Polisario, from the Spanish abbreviation of Frente Popular de Liberación de SaguÃa el Hamra y RÃo de Oro (Peoples Liberation Front of Saguia el-Hamra and Rio de Oro) is an army and political movement in the Western Sahara, comprising...
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Wana (formerly Maroc Connect) (established in 1999) is the third main telecommunication company in Morocco. ...
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- Thailand
During the week of March 8, YouTube was blocked in Thailand.[57] Many bloggers believed the reason for the blockage was a posted video of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's speech on CNN. However, the government did not confirm or provide reasons for the ban, but YouTube was again accessible since March 10, 2007. is the 67th day of the year (68th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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On the night of April 3, 2007, YouTube was again blocked in Thailand.[58] The government cited a video on the site that it called "insulting" to King Bhumibol Adulyadej.[59] However, the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology claimed that it would unblock YouTube in a few days, after websites containing references to this video are blocked instead of the entire website.[60] Communications Minister Sitthichai Pookaiyaudom said, "When they decide to withdraw the clip, we will withdraw the ban."[61] Shortly after this incident the internet technology blog Mashable was banned from Thailand over the reporting of the YouTube clips in question.[62] YouTube remains blocked from within Thailand as of August, 2007. is the 93rd day of the year (94th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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- Turkey
 YouTube was blocked in Turkey. "Access to this site is blocked by court order". Turkey blocked YouTube on March 6, 2007 for letting videos insulting Turks and Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey, to be shown, in an escalation of what some call a "virtual war" between Greeks, Armenians, Kurds and Turks on YouTube, with people from each side posting videos to berate the other.[63] The video that caused banning alleged Turks and Atatürk to be homosexuals. The video was first mentioned on CNN Türk and the Istanbul public prosecutor sued YouTube for insulting Turkishness.[64] The court suspended access to YouTube pending removal of the video. The ban was strongly criticized as censorship in the press and by the general public. YouTube lawyers sent documentary of removal to public prosecutor and access was restored on March 9, 2007.[65] Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 484 pixelsFull resolution (1021 × 618 pixel, file size: 81 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) This is what you see once you try to login to YouTube on 7th March 2007. ...
Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 484 pixelsFull resolution (1021 × 618 pixel, file size: 81 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) This is what you see once you try to login to YouTube on 7th March 2007. ...
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Terms of service According YouTube's terms of service,[66] users may upload videos only with permission of the copyright holder and of the depicted persons. Pornography, defamation, harassment, commercial advertisements and material that encourages criminal conduct may not be uploaded. The uploader grants YouTube a license to distribute and modify the uploaded material for any purpose; this license terminates when the uploader deletes the material from the site. Users may view videos on the site as long as users agree to the terms of service. Terms of Service (often abbreviated as ToS) are rules by which one must agree to abide by in order to use a service. ...
Domain name problem YouTube's immense success has unintentionally affected the business of an American company, Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment Corp., whose website, http://www.utube.com, has been frequently overloaded and shut down by extremely high numbers of visitors unsure about the spelling of YouTube's domain name.[67] At the beginning of November 2006, Universal Tube filed suit in federal court against YouTube,[68] requesting that the youtube.com domain be transferred to them.[69] This was widely viewed as frivolous litigation. Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment Corporation is an American manufacturer and supplier of metal machine tubes and pipes. ...
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Technical notes
Video format YouTube's video playback technology is based on Macromedia's Flash Player 7 and uses the Sorenson Spark H.263 video codec. This technology allows the site to display videos with quality comparable to more established video playback technologies (such as Windows Media Player, QuickTime and RealPlayer) that generally require the user to download and install a web browser plugin in order to view video. 'Flash' requires a plug-in, but the 'Flash 7' plug-in is generally considered to be present on approximately 90% of online computers.[70] The video can also be played back with gnash or VLC. It has pixel dimensions of 320 by 240 and a uses 25 frames per second. The maximum data rate is 300kbps. Macromedia was an American graphics and web development software house headquartered in San Francisco, California producing such products as Macromedia Flash. ...
The Adobe Flush Player is a widely distributed multimedia and application player created and distributed by Macromedia (a division of Adobe Systems). ...
The Sorenson codec (also known as Sorenson Video Codec, Sorenson Video Quantizer or SVQ) is a digital video codec devised by the company Sorenson Media. ...
H.263 is a video codec designed by the ITU-T as a low-bitrate encoding solution for videoconferencing. ...
A codec is a device or program capable of performing encoding and decoding on a digital data stream or signal. ...
Windows Media Player (WMP) is a digital media player and media library application developed by Microsoft that is used for playing audio, video and viewing images on personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, as well as on Pocket PC and Windows Mobile-based devices. ...
QuickTime is a multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc. ...
RealPlayer, briefly known also as RealOne Player, is a cross-platform media player by RealNetworks that plays a number of multimedia formats including MP3, MPEG-4, QuickTime, Windows Media and multiple versions of proprietary RealAudio and RealVideo codecs. ...
An example of a web browser (Internet Explorer), displaying the English Wikipedia main page. ...
A plugin (plug-in, addin, add-in, addon or add-on) is a computer program that interacts with a main (or host) application (a web browser or an email program, for example) to provide a certain, usually very specific, function on demand. ...
Gnash is a project which aims to create a player and browser plugin for the Adobe Flash file format which is free software, replacing the proprietary software niche currently occupied by Adobe Flash Player. ...
VLC is a three-letter abbreviation with multiple meanings, as described below: VLC media player Visible Light Communications technology Valencia Airport - IATA airport code VLC Variable Length Coding This page concerning a three-letter acronym or abbreviation is a disambiguation page—a list of articles associated with the same title. ...
YouTube converts videos into .FLV (Adobe Flash Video) format after uploading.[71] The extension is then stripped from the file (Extension can be found again with TrID). The different files are stored in obscurely named subdomains, to make ripping the videos difficult. Flash Video (FLV) is a proprietary file format used to deliver video over the Internet using Adobe Flash Player (formerly known as Macromedia Flash Player) version 6, 7, 8, or 9. ...
TrID is a utility designed to identify file types from their binary signatures. ...
In the Domain Name System (DNS) hierarchy, a subdomain is a domain that is part of a larger domain. ...
YouTube officially accepts uploaded videos in .WMV, .AVI, .MOV, MPEG and .MP4, formats[72] Windows Media Video (WMV) is a generic name for the set of video codec technologies developed by Microsoft. ...
// Audio-Video Interleaved, known by its acronym AVI, is a multimedia container format introduced by Microsoft in November 1992 as part of its Video for Windows technology. ...
QuickTime is a multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc. ...
The Moving Picture Experts Group or MPEG is a working group of ISO/IEC charged with the development of video and audio encoding standards. ...
MPEG-4 Part 14, formally ISO/IEC 14496-14:2003, is a multimedia container format standard specified as a part of MPEG-4. ...
Video can be seen in windowed mode or full screen mode; it is possible to switch the mode during the viewing of any video without reloading it.
Audio format YouTube files contain an MP3 audio stream. By default, it is mono-encoding with a 65kbps rate at 22050 Hz. However, it is possible to get a stereo audio track if the movie file is manually converted to FLV format using a program such as ffmpegX (Macintosh) or Riva FLV Encoder (Windows).
Content accessibility
On YouTube Users may submit videos in several common file formats (such as .mpeg and .avi). YouTube automatically converts them to the H.263 variant of Flash Video (with extension .flv), and makes them available for online viewing. Flash Video is a popular video format among large hosting sites due to its wide compatibility. Beginning in June 2007, newly uploaded videos will also be encoded using the H.264 video standard to enable streaming of YouTube videos on the Apple TV and the iPhone. The Moving Picture Experts Group or MPEG is a working group of ISO/IEC charged with the development of video and audio encoding standards. ...
// Audio-Video Interleaved, known by its acronym AVI, is a multimedia container format introduced by Microsoft in November 1992 as part of its Video for Windows technology. ...
H.263 is a video codec designed by the ITU-T as a low-bitrate encoding solution for videoconferencing. ...
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