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Good Day for Google..Viacom Suit Tossed Again..Profits up 21%

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by Bob Hamilton 04/18/2013
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Google is smiling today. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has tossed out Viacom's
suit against Google's YouTube.  Viacom wants Google to pay them millions of dollars
because of copyrighted material owned by Viacom being posted on Youtube.  The
courts agreed with Google that they were protected by the safe harbor provisions of
the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.  The judge wrote, "The burden of showing that
YouTube knew or was...
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Tags: google, youtube, viacom

Does Google/Youtube care about its supporters? Gary Craig doesn't think so..

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by Bob Hamilton 11/03/2011
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Gary Craig has been completely shut out of his Youtube account because Google/Youtube decided to disallow any logins other than gmail. So, after years of adding videos Gary and hundreds of others were suddenly locked out. And, Google/Youtube prides itself on no telephone or direct tech support so you can't get any specific help. Gary posted a video on another account to explain the situation...

The forums are full of frustrated peo...
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Tags: gary craig, google, youtube

GOOGLE SAYS GOOD BYE TO BROADCAST RADIO

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by Bob Hamilton 02/12/2009
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In a company blog about two hours ago, Susan Wojcicki, VP, Product Management
at Google announced that the company has "decided to exit the broadcast radio business and focus our efforts in online streaming audio."  Wojciki explained,  "We will phase out the existing Google Audio Ads and AdSense for Audio products and plan to sell the Google Radio Automation business, the software that automates broadcast radio programming."  She assured current ...
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Tags: radio, google, streaming audio