Posts Tagged ‘ banned videos ’

Vimeo Bans Space-Hogging Gaming Videos; Are The Wild West Days Of Internet Video Coming To An End?

Jul 21st, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Internet TV, Podcast Hosting, Video

Free video hosting service Vimeo has announced that it’s banning gaming videos, becuase they’re space hogs that don’t meet the goals of the site:
The Vimeo staff has decided that we are no longer going to allow gaming videos on Vimeo. Specifically, we are no longer going to allow game walk-throughs, game strategy videos, depictions of [...]



YouTube Founders Challenge Pentagon Ban

May 18th, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: General

YouTube’s co-founders on Thursday challenged the Pentagon’s assertion that soldiers overseas were sapping too much bandwidth by watching online videos, the military’s principal reason for blocking YouTube and other popular Web sites from Defense Department computers.
“They said it might be a bandwidth issue, but they created the Internet, so I don’t know what the problem [...]



YouTube To Start Banning Videos

Apr 18th, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: Streaming Video, Video, Vlogs

YouTube plans to start banning videos posted to the site that may contain copyrighted content, according to CEO Eric Schmidt.
The new system, which Schmidt called Claim Your Content, will automatically identify copyright material so that it can be removed, Schmidt said. Schmidt made his comments at the National Association of Broadcasters conference.
“We are very close [...]