Interesting to see that Google Video has music-videos from a few of my most loved bands:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6876426836811275262&q=blind+guardian

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5021214530633413654&q=edguy

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1333230937823289047&q=judas+priest

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4140542679928541345&q=iron+maiden

Interesting that Google seems to have licenses for that stuff - they better have or otherwise some music industry guys may be slightly irritated :-/

It's especially interesting for owners of video iPods, that Google Video makes high-quality, popular videos available in iPod format, circumventing the fee charged by the iTunes Music Store.

I think the user has most of the rospinisibility for what he/she makes public.. this has been settled in court several times, in many coutries.

Some companies actually make their TV series available for iPod Video for free after the show has been aired, realizing it cant be used for anything in such a small format anyways.. the world is actually going forwayd

No, I don't. I hate Google.

a thing wrote:No, I don't. I hate Google.

I liked you, i really did untill you said this.....Google combined with Firefox is internet they way it's meant to be.....ugh........I'm speachless

a thing wrote:No, I don't. I hate Google.

why?
im not in love with google, like much of the internet seems to be
yeah, i use their search, and their mail system, even sometimes the translator and video stuff...
but thats all it really is for me... a nice search engine, and an ok online mai service

if they went down tomorrow, id prob swich to yahoo mail, and use youtube some more...

heck, i dont even hate microsoft, i *hate* murders and people on that level, microsoft may have done somehing equaly bad, that if i found out about would cause me to hate them... as it is, i strongly dislike them..

still, why hate or dislike google?

1. They obeyed the Chinese government's censorship requests.
2. They release proprietary software.

a thing wrote:1. They obeyed the Chinese government's censorship requests.
2. They release proprietary software.

those are pretty dumb reasons, do you even live in china anyway so why does that matter
and since when was proprietary software a crime?

CheapAlert wrote:

a thing wrote:1. They obeyed the Chinese government's censorship requests.
2. They release proprietary software.

those are pretty dumb reasons, do you even live in china anyway so why does that matter

I have to disagree with you.. As humans it should be our responsibility to come to the aid of the less fortunate, not making deals with then supressors.

CheapAlert wrote:

a thing wrote:1. They obeyed the Chinese government's censorship requests.
2. They release proprietary software.

those are pretty dumb reasons, do you even live in china anyway so why does that matter
and since when was proprietary software a crime?

That's so shallow.

a thing wrote:1. They obeyed the Chinese government's censorship requests.

The other option is to withdraw from china completly...
any major search engine, especaily a native chinese one is still gonna be censored in china
However, i think they could have made it a good thing, by purposly making their filters kinda crap...
i admit, if they have *really good* filters, this was a bad thing to do, moderate, and its not god or bad, but if they have fairly crap filters, then this aint so bad

a thing wrote:2. They release proprietary software.

err, i dont totaly think thats a bad thing... it depends what you do with the proprietary software...
only software i can think of that google released is google earth, and i tihnk that could be replaced by nasa "world wind"?
which is open source, but may be windows only, i dunno...

google desktop... i dont want that though



oh yeah, something i really do quite like about google - the ads
seriously, remember back in the old days?
NEON FLASHING BANNERS EVERYWHERE!!!!
i tihnk the nice lil text ads are much nicer...

still, both your points are acceptable to me, at least to the point where i dont directly disagree with them

Chozabu wrote:google desktop... i dont want that though

-Google MySearchHistory
-GDrive

u dont want to have them either

Google MySearchHistory - i dont know what it is for sure, but i dont tinhk id be intrested...

Ahh - GDrive, this *could* be good

if i can just get ftp access to some free space, or even better proper free hosting, ill love it
if i have to acess it through google desktop or something... im not really intrested