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YouTube to ban videos showing gang violence

admin — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 08:14:02 +0000

The increasing manifestation of gang and gun culture on TV and Internet has become a real headache for several countries around the world and now the think tanks of these countries are trying to curb it by implementing new media rules and regulations. In such a bid, YouTube has also banned all those submissions that show guns and knives in a positive way.

The new rule has been implemented because of an investigative report from The Times’ that noticed some failings in YouTube’s monitoring system.

A spokesperson for Google, who owns the website said about the new ruling: “The particular concern is over those videos that show weapons to threat or bullying the people and this area is really needed to be addressed.

It’s not happening first time that YouTube changed its submission rules .During the last week, YouTube posted an update to community guidelines on its official blog in which change of policy related to videos that had hate speeches, violence and other content was announced.

These new guidelines are somewhat confusing for some as well as they are asking whether the rules also apply on pro military videos.

According to YouTube, it has to face problems in vetting video before they go on the site.

In a quick search, you would find that there are around 78,000 videos on the site that relate to the word ‘gun’.

The biggest internet movie site IMDB starts streaming movies for free

admin — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:11:51 +0000

IMDB.com, which is quite well-known as the biggest internet movie site and a haven for movie buffs all around the world, is considering streaming all movies for free to its website.

Things are not being done halves by the company as it offering around 6,000 movies this autumn in which some classics like ‘Some like It Hot’, Raising Arizona, Cult and Fever Pitch have been included.

Heroes, 24, and Family Guy like whole host of TV shows have also been included on the site for free.

Isn’t it sad that the service will be available only in the US and nothing has been told about the UK release date for the free content?

IMDB founder Col Needham said about the new service: “It’s not so that we are contented with only 6,000 free movies, but it’s quite exciting for us to offer our users to enjoy full-length movies and TV episodes for free.”

He added, “It’s our aim to show our users each and every movie and TV show to our users for free on IMDB.com.”

It’s expected that Amazon owned IMDB.com will start this free online movie services in the UK and other European countries very soon.

‘Slacker Uprising’ Michael Moore film released on the web for free

admin — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:11:31 +0000

Michael Moore’s new film ‘Slacker uprising’ will be released online for free as the political commentator has called it “gift for friends”

The movie is about visits of over 60 campuses that were made by Moore up to 2004 Presidential elections to ask the students for vote.

The film will be released on DVD as it wouldn’t be getting a theatrical release and as Moore says that it wouldn’t happen soon and you can watch the film free for three weeks.

The premiere on video-upload site Blip.TV will be presented in UK on September 23rd.

The film is coming after Moore’s last documentary Sicko that was about the Health Care system of the US and it was also nominated for Academy Award as Best Documentary Feature.

More than $2 million were spent in the making of Slacker Uprising and it’s going to be titled as “Captain Mike across America.”