They uploaded the clips to Google Video, a free website full of such stuff.
Google Video has been in a coma since the company acquired YouTube in 2006.
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Many shows are also available for sale at Web outlets like Apple Computer 's iTunes or Google Video.
's MySpace, Google Video and DailyMotion, keeping them in a searchable iTunes-style library.
In 2006, three Italian boys harassed an autistic classmate in Turin and uploaded video of the taunting to Google Video.
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Google announced that it would be shutting down Google Video, and has given users a 15-day window to download their content.
's (nyse: NWS - news - people ) MySpace, Google Video and DailyMotion, keeping them in a searchable iTunes-style library.
Google co-founder Larry Page launched the service at the Consumer Electronics Show, in Las Vegas, but the success of YouTube has made Google Video increasingly irrelevant.
Many shows are also available for sale at Web outlets like Apple Computer 's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) iTunes or Google Video.
Larry explains that they move Google Video to a common codec format, to prevent frustrating video problems without committing to a proprietary format or a business partnership to do so.
Kontraband, a firm in London, takes funny, bizarre, conspiratorial or otherwise interesting video clips from its clients and places them on its own site and on popular video-sharing sites such as YouTube.com or Google Video.
On the same day as it disclosed the European antitrust investigation, the company also said an Italian court had convicted three of its officials over a clip posted on Google Video of a disabled child being bullied.
"There's no question this is totally confusing to consumers, " says Inside Digital Media analyst Phil Leigh, who adds that for Google, the unclear boundaries about what people can and can't do with their Google Video downloads will initially affect sales.
The Google Talk widget is getting nuked from a distance in favour of the Meebo bar, and Google Video (which no longer accepts uploads) is to be unplugged by August 20, with all remaining hosted content moving or already moved to YouTube.
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For now, please accept our invitation to jump past the break, where a Google demo video awaits.
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Many also incorporate technology such as YouTube videos of native speakers or Google Hangout video chats for live, long-distance conversations.
The result is a "channel bonding" system that Connectify says will speed up all your online activities: Dropbox or SkyDrive uploads and downloads, Google Hangout video conferencing and video streaming from the likes of Netflix, to name a few.
Google has hinted in a teaser video that its Google Wallet feature will be launching today, according to TechCrunch, which cites a commercial featuring a scene with Seinfeld character George Constanza.
The Google-owned video brand and the music industry have labored over ways to let the music flow.
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During Schmidt's tenure, Google also bought video-sharing site YouTube and branched out into other areas, with mixed results.
Google's video-sharing website is heavy with media as well, and Godskind says it provides a better comparison to MySpace.
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Google's video fingerprinting announcement has done little to assuage these increasingly vocal criticisms or to deflect Viacom's legal assault.
The upgrade also allows consumers to enjoy the full benefits of the Android Gingerbread platform including Google Talk with Video Chat.
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Google wants its video coding program, called VP8, to be a core part of the WebM project that is making web-centred video production tools.
For a company that has built its strategic lead, and lofty market cap, on best-of-breed search technology, this is a major weakness in Google's video-search offering.
Through its Partner Program each year, the Google-owned video platform pays out millions of dollars in shared advertising revenue to its most popular video creators.
But with a billion monthly visitors from around the globe, the Google-owned video service hopes to quickly add subscribers and add to the money it already makes from online advertising.
The copy protection on most of Google's paid videos means that after they're purchased, they can't be played on anything but a PC connected to the Internet running Google's video player.
Google maintains the video is within its guidelines.
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It does a far better job than Google's video search at pulling up the exact episode you want and provides a lot more info about each show, its characters and related content.
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