Dailymotion
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| Type | Private |
| Founded | March 15, 2005 |
| Headquarters |  Paris, France |
| Key people | Benjamin Bejbaum, Co-founder Olivier Poitrey, Co-founder and CTO Mark Zaleski, Chairman Didier Rappaport, Chief operating officer |
| Employees | 80 (2008) |
| Slogan | Regarder, publier, partager (Watch, publish, share) |
| Website | www.dailymotion.com List of domain |
| Type of site | video sharing |
| Advertising | contextual & video ads |
| Registration | Optional (required to upload) |
| Available in | 16 languages |
| Launched | March 15, 2005 |
| Current status | active |
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Dailymotion is a video hosting service website, based in Paris, France. Its domain name was registered one month after YouTube (but the site opened one month earlier) with gandi.net, a French internet domain name provider, and at least one name server is based in France with the .fr name extension.
The site is well known for its superior video quality in comparison with other flash-enabled video hosting websites.[1]
As of January 2008, the site was getting about 16,000 new videos posted daily, and page views in excess of 26 million per day. [2] As of January 2008, Dailymotion had a global Alexa Internet ranking of 38.[3]
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[edit] Background
Dailymotion allows users to browse videos by searching tags, channels or user-created groups; the search system also introduces results based on things other users have searched for. The maximum size of a video per file is 150 MB (compared to 1024 MB for YouTube). Video limit is 20 minutes (compared with YouTube's 10 minutes for free users), with the exception of MotionMaker use, similar to YouTube, but with an unlimited file size and no time limit.
With regard to explicit sexual content, Dailymotion was Google bombed and shows up at the top of the following Google searches: "share your sex videos,"[1] and "share your masturbation videos."[2]. However Dailymotion's own terms of service state that such content on their site is prohibited[3].
Videos uploaded by users to Dailymotion are converted to the VP6 codec at a resolution of 320x240. MotionMaker users can upload at a resolution of 640x480 or 1280x720. YouTube uses the older Sorenson Spark H.263 codec at a resolution of 320×240. Audio on Dailymotion videos are encoded as MP3 at 96 kbit/s in stereo, compared to 64kbit/s mono on YouTube videos.
Dailymotion has been blocked in China since August 29, 2007.
[edit] International Addresses
[edit] Banning (Blocking of Dailymotion)
[edit] Tunisia
According to the article Tunisia: Video-sharing website Dailymotion Blocked! written by Reporters sans Frontières (Paris) April 11, 2007, Omar Mestiri, an editor of the opposition online newspaper "Kalima", is a victim of judicial harassment. Reporters Without Borders has said that a libel suit could result in a three-year prison sentence. RWB organization also called on the authorities to stop blocking Dailymotion, which has been inaccessible in Tunisia since April 1, 2007.
Reporters Without Borders said:
| “ | The lawsuit against Mestiri is absurd because it is based on an online article that cannot even be accessed from within Tunisia ... But we take this case very seriously. The three and a half year sentence imposed on lawyer Mohammed Abbou in April 2005 for an article posted online showed how the Tunisian courts are controlled by the government and how a libel suit can lead to a heavy sentence. | ” |
The press freedom organisation added:
| “ | The censorship of Dailymotion's website shows that the government, which is as paranoid about the Internet as it is about the traditional press, is ready to ban tens of thousands of inoffensive videos in order to block a handful it does not like. | ” |
The suit against Mestiri was brought by Tunisian lawyer Mohammed Baccar over an article posted on September 5, 2006 accusing him of fraud and forgery. Mestiri was summoned by the deputy state prosecutor to respond to a charge of libel on March 29. Mestiri's lawyers have challenged the suit's legal basis on the grounds that Kalima's site is blocked in Tunisia and the article couldn't have been accessed there.
The blocking of Dailymotion may have been prompted by the posting of a number of videos on the political situation in Tunisia, such as [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] and [9]. The Cybervision website has been tracking this issue[10].
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[edit] Explicit Material in United States
For unknown reasons, all videos marked as containing explicit material were blocked from US IP addresses, yet still viewable in the rest of the world. The block was lifted in November 24, 2007.
[edit] China
As with many other websites, Dailymotion was blocked by the Chinese government on August 29, 2007. Dailymotion videos embed into web pages from other domains remain accessible.
[edit] Copyright Protection
As with YouTube, Dailymotion with the help of Audible Magic, implemented an acoustic fingerprinting system that can detect copyrighted videos and not publish them.
[edit] References
- ^ Dailymotion gets high-definition videos
- ^ French video site takes on YouTube with local offering
- ^ Alexa Ranking
