YouTube blocks a mobile video provider
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YouTube would have signed an exclusive deal with Verizon to provide its video on demand to cellphone users. Out-Law magazine hints about this scenario after that YouTube forced content provider TinyTube to shut its YouTube related service. The reason: TinyTube encoding violated the terms and conditions of the video-sharing website.
So far, TinyTube has been doing the job of encoding videos in an appropriate format for mobile phones and redistribute them on its site. According to TinyTube’s Allen Day, the shutdown was due to the YouTube-Verizon deal. Allen Day said to the magazine they “were informed by YT their action was largely due to pressure from their new mobile partner, Verizon”.
“YouTube’s initial contact with the company suggested that there could be a commercial relationship between the two, but those hopes quickly faded.” Apparently, YouTube, being the partnership of some big entertainment studios, now can’t work with smaller players.
Jan 24, 2007 | By Nuno
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