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Sony to launch YouTube competitor in Japan
News Corp and NBC Universal last month announced they would launch a similar site this year.
While Sony is launching its EyeVio site in Japan, the company plans to expand the service to other countries if it performs well.
Sony hopes to avoid the lawsuits that have plagued Google by actively monitoring the site for copyright violations from the get go, rather than waiting for content producers to contact the company with complaints. Of course, this raises the question: Without copyrighted videos, will anyone user the new site? There are conflicting reports over whether YouTube owes its success more to user-generated video or clips from programs like The Daily Show.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Matthew said 10:54PM on 4-26-2007
Nico Nico Douga (http://www.nicovideo.jp/), a video sharing site launched earlier this year then relaunched in March with their own servers and better video quality than YouTube, is already quite popular, so Sony's got more than a bit of catching up to do here.
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Darkstorm said 5:34PM on 4-27-2007
It's funny how the designer used the PS3 prototype controller as an icon.
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KirbyMeister said 4:21PM on 4-28-2007
Knowing Sony, they'll use Flash 8 or 9 just to make sure Wiis won't work with it. ;) Hell, they'll probably use a non-standard player to boot!
(They have to screw it up SOMEHOW! It's obviously just an attempt to get rid of Youtube so they can have their own video site on their own terms)
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