- Many schools have also begun to ban access to YouTube.
- The main criticism of YouTube is that it allows people to upload any content that infringes copyright. YouTube has been subject of a number of lawsuits as companies claim that YouTube should do more to block people uploading copyrighted videos. In response, YouTube has added a ‘digital fingerprint’ system that checks videos that are uploaded against the original content.
- YouTube is currently owned by Google Inc. There is some speculation that Google will try and sell YouTube as it is actually costing them more money than it is making them. The bandwidth costs are estimated to be more than $US1,000,000 a day!
- Anyone can upload WMV, AVI, MOV, MPEG,and MP4 file formats. Anyone can also use mobile phone to upload a video directly.
- Some people tried to use automated system that generate automatic views for a video and make that video popular. YouTube have banned too much of like that videos because it is against YouTube terms and conditions.
- The domain name YouTube.com was registered on Valentine's day in 2005.
- This domain name caused a huge misunderstanding between Universal Tube and Rollform equipment.
- The first video has received over 4.8 million views.
- The longest ever video on YouTube is of 48 hours ( 2 days )
- It generates an estimated 92 billion page views each year.
- More than 13 million hours of videos were uploaded during 2010 and video of 35 hours is uploaded every minute.
- The amount of video uploaded in 2010 is the equivalent of 150,000 + full length movies in theaters each wee.
- YouTube reached over 700 billion playbacks in 2010.
- YouTube mobile gets over 100 million views a day.
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