U.S. Uploads Anti-Drug Videos to YouTube
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By TED BRIDIS WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is taking its fight against illegal drugs to YouTube, the trendy Internet video service that already features clips of wacky, drug-induced behavior and step-by-step instructions for growing marijuana plants.
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The F.D.A. has begun to crack down on the thousands of drugs, often made by small companies, that have never had to go through the agencyâs stringent approval process.
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A Massachusetts police department posts a surveillance video clip on YouTube to help ID two men using allegedly stolen credit cards on tape. By the Associated Press.
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Gov. Kathleen Sebelius on Tuesday rolled out a program that will allow Kansans to buy prescription drugs from other countries over the Internet.
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In a Sept. 28 story about the interception of drugs purportedly sent from Canada, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the medications had been ordered by Americans from the Web site www.CanadaRx.com. The drugs were ordered through www.CanadaRx.net.
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Blog: The video is safe, but the download mod it advertises is not.
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Videos showing attacks against U.S. troops in Iraq have migrated to Internet video-sharing sites like YouTube.
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(InfoWorld) - YouTube will start displaying a notice in Japanese on its Web site warning users against uploading copyright content, its two founders told representatives of a broad group of Japanese copyright holders on Tuesday in their firstÂ face-to-face meeting. The Japanese language message was the only concession YouTube offered in the meeting, according to those present. No time frame was given for when the message will appear. The meeting, which ran for about two hours, was held in response to aÂ complaint made in DecemberÂ last year by a group of 23 Japanese TV broadcasters and associations representing copyright holders. The group had also asked YouTube to register the names and addresses of users making uploads and terminate the accounts of those who illegally upload copyrighted content. "The meeting went quite well and it was a very friendly manner," said Satoshi Watanabe, manager of the transmission rights department at the Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers. JASRAC sent the original complaint on behalf of the other companies and associations and Tuesday's meeting was held at its Tokyo headquarters. "We are very satisfied with the direct negotiation realized and this should be a first step to carrying on... but their reply itself is not satisfactory today so we'd like to solve the issues," he said. YouTube CEO Chad Hurley, Chief Technology Officer Steven Chen and GoogleÂ Vice President of Contents Partnership, David Eun, attended the meeting but didn't offer any comments afterwards and sped away from JASRAQ in waiting taxis. Later, YouTube issued a brief statement that confirmed its commitment to respect copyright and thanked the organizations for the meeting. At the meeting the YouTube founders outlined their plans to develop a system that will be able to automatically scan uploaded video files and identify some that infringe on copyright, but no time frame was given for the launch of the system, representatives of the Japanese group said at a news conference. They also confirmed plans to begin paying uploaders for popular content providing the uploader owns the copyright. If such a service was to begin it would require uploaders to register their real names and addresses with YouTube in order to receive payment and that step would likely mean such users are unlikely to infringe on copyrighted material. The Japanese copyright holders are spooked by YouTube's site because of the large number of Japanese clips and users. The complaint was prompted afterÂ YouTube deleted 30,000 filesÂ judged to infringe on copyright of Japanese organizations and new files quickly found their way onto the site. YouTube is easily the most popular English-language Web site in Japan and one of the most popular overall. According to some estimates a third of all its traffic comes from Japan. The meeting comes days after YouTube found itselfÂ in hot-water with Viacom International, which owns cable channels such as MTV, Nickelodeon, and Comedy Central. Viacom demanded over 100,000 clips be removed from YouTube because they contained its copyrighted content. Viacom had been talking to YouTube for several months trying to work out a revenue sharing scheme under which it could share profit from the clips but lost patience with YouTube when the talks made little progress. Copyright issues have been buzzing around YouTube ever since it became a household name and kick-started the online video sharing market. Google acquired YouTubeÂ in a $1.65 billion all-stock deal in November last year. With such a high value attached to the site, some suggested it became a bigger target for content providers unhappy at their material being uploaded to YouTube. Google appears to have shared the concern and put aside 12.5 percent of the acquisition amount in an escrow account for one year to "secure certain indemnification obligations." Since the acquisition YouTube and Google have been negotiating with copyright holders. Â
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Missouri is joining Illinois and Wisconsin in a new Internet program that helps residents buy cheaper prescription drugs from Canada and Europe despite a federal ban.
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Independent music labels in the United States and Britain, upset with YouTube over how content is used on the site, are threatening legal action. The labels are upset with terms the social networking service proposed for the use of copyright-protected work, Billboard said Tuesday.
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In a trend that could be a boon for YouTube, more U.S. residents say they are going online to watch videos, films and TV shows, according to a new survey by Harris Interactive
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YouTube, which has had to pull  copyrighted videos off its site after legal attacks by some big  media franchises, has enjoyed a surge in U.S. audience share  that leaves it far larger than the next 64 video-sharing sites  combined, a survey found.
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Anyone with an Internet connection can watch videos of bombings and sniper attacks against U.S. forces -- shot and edited by Islamic militants and broadcast on YouTube, the world's largest video-sharing Web ...Comment
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The White House is distributing government-produced, anti-drug videos on YouTube, the trendy Internet service that already features clips of wacky, drug-induced behavior and step-by-step instructions for growing marijuana plants.
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In 2004, YouTube didn&#39;t exist. Three  years later, politicians have learned to fear and revere the  video-sharing Web site that has become a vital part of the  campaign for the 2008 U.S. presidential election.
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The latest hot homemade video claims that Coast Guard patrol boat security camers have blindspots. But in the YouTube age, viewers should be wary of their own