YouTube will soon have more shows to be featured on the site. This is after the largest video sharing website signed another deal with Freemantel Media.

Freemantel Media is the producer of the world famous American Idol and other TV entertainment titles. The company currently holds some top rating shows. The deal will allow YouTube to publish original and with copyright videos by Freemantle, under a deal of course that Freemantle will get revenue from the videos.

This move is also under the hopes that piracy and unmediated uploading of Freemantle videos will be minimized. The deal will use YouTube’s VideoID anti-piracy technology, an anti copyright infringement system which fingerprints video to weed out illegal copies of copyrighted content.

The new deal will add videos and show to the already publicized programs suchy as Hole in the Wall (Australia) and X Factor 2007, as well as original web programming like ToyBoize and Atomic Wedgie.

Source: NewTeeVee

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If you’re planning on filming that last summer outing of yours in high-definition, make sure that you won’t run or edit it on a computer that uses Windows Vista.

Many consumers are complaining that they are having difficulties in running and loading contents in HD format. The reason for this is that Microsoft has purposely designed Vista to reject or modify HD audio or video files when they appear to be unlicensed. The algorithm was incorporated in the OS to protect copyright owners from unauthorized distribution of their products.

While this strategy would definitely curb video and audio piracy on the Internet, it would also effectively hamper or prohibit users from loading HD contents that they themselves have made. Take note that HD technology is fast gaining ground, and ordinary people are steadily embracing the innovation.

Microsoft should balance the interests of its corporate and individual clients lest it turns off either or both of them. 20^th Century Fox or Warner Bros. may be one of Redmond’s biggest clients, but individual consumers still make up the bulk of their market.

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