Viacom recently requested that YouTube remove more than 100,000 video clips that they claim infringe on their content.
Unfortunately, when you spread that wide of a net, a lot of dolphins get caught with the tuna. Among the 100,000 videos targeted for takedowns was a home movie shot in a BBQ joint, a film trailer by [...]

Vlogger Nick Gisburne, below, has been banned YouTube for posting a video slide show of quotations from the Qur’an. The censorship of Gisburne’s videos raises issues about what is appropriate content and whether YouTube and other sites will allow open discussion of religion and other topics.
Here’s Gisburne’s explanation of the situation:

via Xooglers

MySpace today announced that it has implemented a pilot program to block videos containing unauthorized copyrighted content from being posted in its community. With the program’s launch, MySpace becomes the largest Internet video site filtering content.
Using digital fingerprinting technology licensed from Audible Magic, MySpace’s filter screens video uploaded by users and blocks any video matching [...]