The new player will add a jump feature to skip ahead to any part of the video even if the video isn't fully downloaded.
For each video, you'll be able to see around ten related videos. You don't have to wait until the video ends to play a new one because they're available as thumbnails if you hover over the video. The effect is similar to the dock from Mac OS X. You can also click on the two arrows to go to the previous / next video.
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Viacom today announced that it has sued YouTube and Google in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York for massive intentional copyright infringement of Viacom's entertainment properties. The suit seeks more than $1 billion in damages, as well as an injunction prohibiting Google and YouTube from further copyright infringement. The complaint contends that almost 160,000 unauthorized clips of Viacom's programming have been available on YouTube and that these clips had been viewed more than 1.5 billion times.
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Access to the popular video-sharing website YouTube has been suspended in Turkey following a court order.
The ban was imposed after prosecutors told the court that clips insulting former Turkish leader Mustafa Kemal Ataturk had appeared on the site.
According to Turkish media, there has been a "virtual war" between Greek and Turkish users of the site, with both sides posting insulting videos.
The clip prompting the ban reportedly dubbed Ataturk and Turks homosexuals.
Insulting Ataturk, the founding father of modern Turkey, or...
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Google's YouTube will offer no refuge to users who uploaded pirated copies of Fox Television's "24" and "The Simpsons" onto their video platforms.
A 20th Century Fox Television spokesperson said that complied with subpoenas issued by the U.S. District Court in Northern California and disclosed to Fox the identities of two individuals who illegally uploaded entire episodes of "24" prior to its broadcast and DVD release.
According to copies of the subpoena applications, Fox found this season's first four episodes of "24" on LiveDigital and...
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Since the new partnership between Vodafone and myspace another announcement has been released. This time Vodafone are launching YouTube Mobile.
Vodafone customers will be able to access new videos daily as well as upload content and send recommendations to their friends. Initially the service will be launched in the UK but will be extended across Europe using the Vodafone Live! Service.
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Two of YouTube's founders stand to divide shares of stock now valued at around $650 million, Web search leader Google Inc. said in a regulatory filing Wednesday detailing the payout from its $1.65 billion acquisition.
Chad Hurley received 694,087 of Google common stock worth around $326 million and Steve Chen received Google common stock valued at a similar amount, including 625,366 shares directly owned and another 68,721 shares held in a trust.
Sequoia Capital, the sole venture capital backer of YouTube, stands to receive around $442...
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YouTube founder Chad Hurley confirmed that his team was working on a revenue-sharing mechanism that would "reward creativity".
The system would be rolled out in a couple of months, he said, and use a mixture of adverts, including short clips shown ahead of the actual film.
The offer applies only to people who own the full copyright of the videos that they are uploading to the YouTube website.
The audience of the YouTube website will not have to put up with overly long "pre-roll" adverts. Mr Hurley said a clip of three seconds length...
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YouTube has been "noodling" over the idea of creating a linear TV channel comprised of content culled from the thousands of clips posted on its site, YouTube vice president of content Kevin Donahue said.
Donahue, speaking on the "Hollywood and the Digital Consumer" panel here Monday at the International Consumer Electronics Show, said YouTube has been toying with the idea of generating conventional-form TV programs -- or even a linear channel -- but he added that it's not currently a priority.
"We’re noodling on it," he said. "We...
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YouTube now has Test Tube, a place to test new ideas and features.
"Welcome to TestTube, our ideas "incubator." This is where YouTube engineers and developers test out recipes and concoctions that aren't quite fully baked and invite you to tell us how they're coming along. Your comments will help us improve and perfect the mixtures we're working on. So jump in, play around, and send your feedback directly to the brains behind the scenes" http://youtube.com/test...
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YouTube added a new feature called Quick Capture, which allows users to record video directly to YouTube from webcams plugged into their computers. This new feature eliminates steps in the process of producing video content, making it easier than ever to publish videos to the web.
The Quick Capture tool uses an Adobe Flash Player API to connect to the user's webcam. The user must first grant the Flash Player permission to use the camera and microphone—and must do so every time—before using the service. Once the user grants permission,...
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