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What is video hosting?
By admin | December 22, 2007
Video hosting is a very popular hosting service which allows users to upload and share their videos with people around the world through the internet. The user uploads the video clip onto the website where it is then stored on the database of that site. Many popular web hosting services exist these days with the more popular ones being YouTube, TVLinks etc and these have become extremely popular because a person can share his clips even if he does not have a domain of his own.
The increased availability of personal cameras and other recording devices has lead to a sudden boom in this market. People shoot videos of events or their dear ones and then upload them onto the host site where with the particular code others can view it. The fact that these services make it extremely easy for users and makes the need for CDs and DVDs redundant is one of the reasons why websites of this kind are so popular. Such sites eliminate costs, they also provide the ease of a common place and since uploading and viewing videos is so easy and require little or no technical knowledge these things are becoming increasing popular and more and more internet users are taking to them.
However such a service is not without its problems. Most of these services have been accused of copyright infringement and in most cases the videos are uploaded by private users and no rights are given to the company owning the video. In such situations it is unclear who is in the wrong because the sites have no control over who posts what. Some sites however discourage users from uploading copyrighted videos. However as of now with no strict law in place, there is not much that can be done against such services. Internet users meanwhile rejoice.
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