As YouTube prepares to launch its own mobile services, it seems like Google's lawyers are out to make sure YouTube has control over when and how the content is distributed.

Up until today, TinyTube offered a way to search for and stream YouTube videos as 3gp files on a mobile phone. You could also copy and paste part of the URL of a YouTube video stream directly into TinyTube to find specific videos.

As of this morning, TinyTube has been reduced to a site for watching movie trailers. All the YouTube content has been removed, after TinyTube was contacted by YouTube management about "Terms of Service violations."

Hopefully this means YouTube will be offering its own free mobile service soon, and not just providing YouTube content to Verizon V-Cast subscribers for $15 per month.

[Via CoolSmartPhone]