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YouTube is a video-sharing website on which users can upload, share, and view videos. The company is based in San Bruno, California, and uses Adobe Flash Video technology to display a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips, and music videos, as well as amateur content such as video blogging and short original videos. Judge Stanton rejected Viacom's request for YouTube to hand over the source code of its search engine system, saying that there was no evidence that YouTube treated videos infringing copyright differently. YouTube relies on its users to flag the content of videos as inappropriate, and a YouTube employee will view a flagged video to determine whether it violates the site's terms of service. Blocking
Some schools have blocked access to YouTube, citing the inability to determine what sort of video material might be accessed by students. When YouTube was launched in 2005 it was possible to upload longer videos, but a ten minute limit was introduced in March 2006 after YouTube found that the majority of videos exceeding this length were unauthorized uploads of television shows and films. Each YouTube video is accompanied by a piece of HTML, which can be used to embed it on a page outside the YouTube website. In January 2009, YouTube launched "YouTube for TV", a version of the website tailored for set-top boxes and other TV-based media devices with web browsers, initially allowing its videos to be viewed on the PlayStation 3 and Wii video game consoles. In March 2009, a dispute between YouTube and the British royalty collection agency PRS for Music led to premium music videos being blocked for YouTube users in the United Kingdom. April Fools YouTube has featured April Fools on the site every year since 2008:
Charlie Bit My Finger Harry and his little brother Charlie, is one of YouTube's most viewed videos. Tilghman Senior Advisor: Al Gore
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