YouTube
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| Type: | Subsidiary of Google (Youtube is an assistant to Google) |
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| Founded: | February 15, 2005 |
| Headquarters: | {{{location}}} |
| Key people: | Chad Hurley, Founder & CEO Steve Chen, Founder & CTO Jawed Karim, Founder & Advisor |
| Employees: | 67 (2006) |
| Website: | www.youtube.com (English only) |
YouTube is a free video sharing website which lets people put on, view, and share videos. Videos can be rated and the rating and the number of times a video has been watched are both put on the site. It is currently owned by Google. It allows different types of videos. YouTube was created in February 2005 by three former employees of PayPal. In August of 2006, YouTube announced that, in 18 months, it hopes to offer every music video ever created, while still remaining free of charge. Warner Music Group and EMI have confirmed that they are among the companies to make this plan work.[1]
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[change] Banning
[change] Iran
On December 3, 2006, Iran blocked YouTube and several other sites in an attempt to stop foreign films and music from being seen.[2]
[change] Turkey
Turkey blocked YouTube on March 6 2007 for letting videos that were mean to Turks and Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey, to be shown, because of a "virtual war" between Greeks, Armenians, Kurds and Turks on YouTube, with people from each side posting videos to belittle and berate the other.[3] The video that caused banning alleged Turks and Atatürk to be 'gay'. The video was first mentioned on Turkish CNN and the Istanbul public prosecutor sued YouTube for being mean to Turkishness.[4] The court suspended access to YouTube while waiting for the removal of the video. The ban was strongly criticized. YouTube lawyers sent documentary of removal to court and you could use it again on March 9 2007.[5]
[change] Thailand
During the week of March 8, YouTube was blocked in Thailand.[6] Many bloggers believed the reason YouTube was blocked was because of a video of the former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's speech on CNN. However, the government did not confirm or give reasons for the ban. YouTube was accessible from March 10.
On the night of April 3, YouTube was again blocked in Thailand.[7] The government said it was because of a video on the site that it said was "insulting" to King Bhumibol Adulyadej.[8]. 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.[9] Communications Minister Sitthichai Pookaiyaudom said, "When they decide to withdraw the clip, we will withdraw the ban."[10] Soon after this incident the internet technology blog Mashable was banned from Thailand over the reporting of the YouTube clips in question. [11]
[change] Brazilian model lawsuit and banning that came after
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 says that YouTube has to 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 going to the website.[12][13]
The effectiveness of the measure has been questioned, since the video is not available only on YouTube, but rather has become an Internet phenomenon. On Tuesday, January 9, 2007, the same court overturned their earlier decision, ordering the filters to be taken down, even though the footage was still forbidden, but without technical support for its blockage.[14] After the banning of YouTube in Brazil there has been a website called brtube.com as an unofficial replacement for YouTube in Brazil.
[change] Morocco
On May 25, 2007 the state-owned company Maroc Telecom blocked all access to YouTube.[15] There were no reasons given why Youtube was blocked. But the guesses are that it might have something to do with some pro-separatist group Polisario clips (Polisario is the Western Sahara independence movement) or because of some videos that criticized King Mohammed VI. This block did not concern the other two private internet-providers, Wana and Meditel. YouTube became accessible again on May 30th, 2007 after Maroc Telecom unofficially announced that the denied access to the website was only a "technical glitch".[16]
[change] Terms of service
According the site's terms of service[17], users may upload videos only if they have the permission of the copyright holder and of the people in the video. Pornography, defamation, harassment, commercials and videos that encourages criminal conduct may not be uploaded. The uploader gives YouTube permission to give out and change the uploaded video for any purpose, and they don't have permission anymore when the uploader deletes the video from the site. Users may view videos on the site but cannot download them.
[change] References
- ↑ "YouTube aims to show music videos", BBC NEWS, 2006-08-16.
- ↑ Censorship fears rise as Iran blocks access to top websites (November 4, 2006). Retrieved on 17 December 2006.
- ↑ Turkey pulls plug on YouTube over Ataturk 'insults' (March 7, 2007). Retrieved on 7 March 2007.
- ↑ Turkey bans YouTube (March 8, 2007). Retrieved on 10 March 2007.
- ↑ Turkey revokes YouTube ban (March 9, 2007). Retrieved on 9 March 2007.
- ↑ YouTube seems blocked in Thailand 2bangkok.com (March 10, 2007). Retrieved on 10 March 2007.
- ↑ YouTube Blocked Again (April 04, 2007). Retrieved on 4 April 2007.
- ↑ For some users, YouTube disappears (April 04, 2007). Retrieved on 4 April 2007.
- ↑ YouTube to help block web access to pages insulting King (April 07).
- ↑ "Whose Tube?", The Economist, 2004-04-14, pp. 71. Retrieved on 2007-04-16.
- ↑ Cashmore, Pete. "Mashable.com Banned in Thailand", Mashable, 2004-04-18.
- ↑ http://www.totalsecurity.com.br/article.php?sid=2768&order=0
- ↑ http://www.radiofandango.com.br/archive/valor.php?noticia=3720
- ↑ http://tecnologia.terra.com.br/interna/0,,OI1337815-EI4802,00.html
- ↑ Morocco blocks access to YouTube. globalvoicesonline.org. Retrieved on 27 May 2007.
- ↑ YouTube again accessible via Maroc Telecom. rsf.org. Retrieved on 30 May 2007.
- ↑ YouTube Terms of Use, accessed 5 May 2007
[change] Other websites
