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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Dec 8th, 2006
  • Comments: 5

Fox says that linking to sites that host illegal tv shows is illegal

Fox, the big media company, is apparently forcing a website owner to shutdown his website for linking to tv shows at sites like youtube and dailymotion claiming that linking to those shows would be illegal. This question never made it to court before it seems – here we have it again. A big company with money enough to pay a dozen lawyers is suing a website owner who probably can’t afford to even higher one lawyer.

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Categories: Knowledge, Music Industry, The Web

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Nov 27th, 2006
  • Comments: None

iTube download and convert movies for your video iPod

If you ever wondered if there was a fast and easy way to download and convert movies from sites such as youtube to make them playable on your video iPod you are reading the right article. iTube does exactly that. It downloads videos from a page you specify and converts the video either into mpg which plays on most, if not all, computers or mp4 format which plays on video iPods.

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Categories: iPod

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 9th, 2006
  • Comments: 7

Google Buys Youtube for 1.65 billion

With all the rumors about an acquisition of youtube by Google circulation on many websites it was only a matter of time when the real deal was announced. This happened some minutes ago. Google officially announced the deal in a press conference that took place today. Youtube was acquired for 1.65 billion dollars in a stock-for-stock transaction.

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Categories: The Web

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jun 27th, 2006
  • Comments: None

900 Cartoons and Animations from Youtube

I think this is worth an article. A guy running the website digg drop found more than 900 complete cartoons and animations on youtube and listed them all on his website. I have no idea about the time that it must have taken to collect that many youtube links. I do know that I would not like to do something like this..

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Categories: Cool, Entertainment, Music and Video

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