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What Is Real On YouTube? 277

Posted by kdawson on Monday September 18, 2006 @04:36PM from the i'll-believe-it-when-i-see-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes, "The popularity of user-generated video sites like YouTube has given rise to deceptive videos created for self-promotion, advertising, or even smearing rival brands. This latter format, dubbed the 'smear video,' depicts a rival brand's product exhibiting fictitious faults. One example is the 21-second YouTube video entitled 'Samsung handset, easy to break at one try!', which shows a smiling woman easily snapping the new Samsung Ultra Edition mobile phone in half. Samsung says the phone was rigged to snap and the video has now been removed from the site. The article also accuses those who created the now infamous Lonelygirl15 YouTube videos of 'deception for profit. Misrepresenting commercials as independent user-generated content, actors as members of the public, and fiction as fact.' Will user-generated video sites increasingly confront visitors with the disturbing possibility that the video they're watching is not a home video at all, but a sophisticated ad campaign?"

Who Will Join Microsoft in the Portal Wars? 132

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday May 27, 2006 @11:51AM from the choosing-sides dept.

madman writes "In the light of the recent changes in the search war, like the Google/Dell partnership and eBay/Yahoo! alliance, Microsoft is facing a complicated question: Who are they going to ally with? Will they try to face the competition alone?"

Comment Re:Frugality (Score 1) 120

by Drkdstryer on Friday April 21, 2006 @03:43AM (#15171332) Attached to: Amazon.com, The Bodyguard

Ok, now I agree that what is hanging on most office walls is an expensive waste of space, but by saying it in this way, it makes the guy sound like he's saying art doesn't matter to people. That's a ballsy statement that I would highly contest (just look at the uproar here on /. surrounding Ebert's comments as to whether video games are art).

I don't really care about whether video games are art or not - I see valid arguments on both sides. I want them to be RECOGNIZED as art because then they would get the protection I feel games need, in order to keep them fun and worth buying.

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