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“A new service that provides information about the YouTube clips removed for copyright infringement”

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Ever wanted to view a YouTube clip but you couldn’t do it because it had been removed for copyright complaints? Ever wanted to know what happened with the clip and what’s the reason for the removal?

Now you can get all the information straight from YouTomb, a new service that tracks the YouTube clips which have been removed for copyright complaints and publishes details about them.

As you know, YouTube hosts a huge amount of videos, some of them published without the authorization of the owners. Because of that, YouTube is based on the DMCA act which requires the Google video sharing service to remove a copyright infringement clip once the copyright holder requires it.

YouTomb is a project developed by MIT Free Culture and currently monitors 223,593 videos according to some stats placed on the official page. No less than 4416 were removed for copyright violation while 13,437 were deleted for other reasons, it is added.

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Clicking on one of the YouTomb entries discloses the uploader, the upload time, the removal reason as well as the tags of the clip. Moreover, YouTomb also lets you know the time of the removal and how long it has been viewable through YouTube. However, please note that YouTomb does not allow you to view or download clips, it only provides data about the removed YouTube content.

“YouTomb is a research project by MIT Free Culture that tracks videos taken down from YouTube for alleged copyright violation,” it is mentioned in the About section of YouTomb.

“More specifically, YouTomb continually monitors the most popular videos on YouTube for copyright-related takedowns. Any information available in the metadata is retained, including who issued the complaint and how long the video was up before takedown. The goal of the project is to identify how YouTube recognizes potential copyright violations as well as to aggregate mistakes made by the algorithm.”

Source: Softpedia News

Sony Computer Entertainment head Kaz Hirai has confirmed that the company is looking into disc-free network gaming for future generations, but insisted that the global infrastructure is not yet in place.

With the PlayStation 3 finally beginning to look like the gaming powerhouse its legacy suggested it would be, Hirai is keen to promote the current flagship PlayStation model.

Future tech

But Hirai is mindful of the future, and the oft-talked about gaming purely thorugh online and not needing a physical disc, something he believes is not currently possible with the disparity in network speeds across the world.

“It’s something we would look at. We have had a lot of discussion internally about where the road map will take us,” Hirai told the BBC.

“With network gaming” we’re also dependent on the network infrastructure available in all the territories we do business in.

“Some have faster broadband access than others. When you consider that content that plays on PlayStation 3 can go as high as 50GB it’s going to be very difficult to deliver 50GB to consumers in some parts of the world in a timely fashion.”

PlayStation 4

Hirai also talked about the likely timeline for the next incarnation of PlayStation but confessed to not knowing what it would be capable of.

“It’s very difficult to say at this point in time,” added Hirai.

“We need to take a look at advances in technology in various areas, such as semiconductors, graphics chips, output devices, mainly TV and monitors, to see where we would like to benchmark our next generation product.”

Source: TechRadar

The eyeOS team and eyeOS Community are proud to present yet another great release of their popular eyeOS web operating system, version 1.6.0.0 (codename Gala Sync). This major release comes packed with
new applications, new tools and significant improvements on the overall usability. But the most important
feature of eyeOS 1.6 is the inclusion of eyeSync, an application that will automatically synchronize folders and files from your computer to an eyeOS system (available for Linux, Mac OS X and soon for Windows XP and Vista users).

Highlights of eyeOS 1.6 include:

• Synchronization with your local computer
• Drag and Drop between folders and groups
• New widgets

New applications, such as:

• eyeFeeds (RSS reader)
• Text Editor (with syntax highlighting for the most common programming languages and autocomplete features)
• eyeCode (Integrated Development Environment)
• eyeTetravex (a math game with a highscores system)
• Calculator (scientific calculator)
• some new games.

Last but not least, with Gala Sync, eyeOS developers will be able to build faster and better applications for this amazing OS!

About eyeOS

What is eyeOS? Imagine that you can have a virtual computer with all your important files and all you have to do to access it is to open a web browser and log-in into your desktop, that is exactly how you left it when you used it from another computer. This is eyeOS! A free, cross-platform Personal Content Manager System based on the style of a Desktop Operating System. It includes applications for your daily needs, such as a calendar, file manager, text editor, calculator or Internet browser.

All you need to run eyeOS is an Internet connection and a modern web browser, such as Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Konqueror or Safari. On the other hand, to install eyeOS, you will need to have a 24/7 web server with PHP4 or better.

Source: Softpedia News

Hurray! Demonoid is back online! I know it’s a bit late and most of you guys are already aware that the most popular Bit Torrent website was back online few days ago. Demonoid had to go down because some copyright holders alleged it to be distributing illegal material. Recently, TorrentSpy was shut bearing the same issue.

A message was posted on the Demonoid forum:

“Since a few months ago, Deimos, the site administrator, lacks the necessary time to take care of the website, because of personal matters he’s been needing to attend to. For this reason, he has decided to leave the site staff. Before leaving, he assigned a new site administrator from among his friends to take care of the site. The old moderator team will continue helping with the site, unchanged. We will try to keep running everything just as it always has been. The trackers and website seem to be working properly, and should any issues arise, they will be taken care of as soon as possible. The site might be going on and offline over the next days as we work out any problems”.

Well, no word of CRIA but on November 2007 Demonoid stated:

“The CRIA threatened the company renting the servers to us, and because of this it is not possible to keep the site online. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your understanding”.

Anyway, im sure all the Demonid fans are happy to have it back online.