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According to a report by CNET UK, thousands of login credentials for Hotmail, Yahoo, and Google accounts have been stolen and posted online.  Since Google accounts also allow access to Blogger, YouTube, Google Docs and Google Talk accounts, the potential data breach is huge as are the possible repercussions.  Google… Continue Reading »

YouTube is attempting to build upon its popularity by offering full length features on a rental basis.  The company has been in talks with several movie studios about potential ways to make this possible.  Their biggest hurdle is attempting to get users to pay for premium content when free content… Continue Reading »

Google and YouTube has long been under fire due to low video quality, however, they have recently taken measures to improve video quality.  In recent years, many new video websites have emerged such as Vimeo and SmugMug, both of these sites offer high quality video resolution such as 720p and… Continue Reading »

You know how the big three networks are all over Hulu and YouTube about copyright and how they fear/need the internet to survive?  Blip.tv is what they fear.  Today, Blip announced some big changes that are going to mean something to anyone with a TiVo, has Verizon FIOS, or a… Continue Reading »

Known for their high end audio recording products, Zoom has somewhat strayed away from their comfort zone to create a handy camcorder.  What’s interesting about this product is the amount of emphasis Zoom places on the audio aspect of the video it can record.  Zoom claims the microphones are similar… Continue Reading »

Illegal file sharing is down, and streaming is up, at least when it comes to teenagers.  According to new research, teens are changing their ways when it comes to piracy.  There has been a dramatic drop in the number of youth aged 14 to 18 who are illegally sharing music. … Continue Reading »

Just two weeks after blocking most all Google services, China has blocked Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube (which had already been sharply restricted) following ethnic violence and civil unrest there.  In the province where 140 people have been killed and 800 injured in clashes between Uighurs and authorities, the government cut… Continue Reading »

Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!  Ye makers of The Pirate Bay are apparently not planning to go sailing into waters unknown even amidst all the current legal fiascos they are facing.  They are launching a new site called The Video Bay to be in competition with YouTube.  No one… Continue Reading »

Fans of YouTube should be happy, since they have just doubled the size of uploads for users from 1GB to 2GB.  The change counts for regular account holders, no fancy account status needed.  According to the company, the increase is to compensate for users’ HD uploads. This is a pretty… Continue Reading »

Yesterday was proclaimed “Porn Day” on a couple of oh so brilliant sites and an image board; and as a result, YouTube was slammed with tons of explicit clips left and right. Obviously, these clips violated their terms of use, and they were madly trying to remove them, but the… Continue Reading »