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Big news this week - Hulu has pretty much announced that it will be charging for use, and soon. We're all doomed!!! If you can ignore that bit of info, enjoy the other headlines!

Criminal Investigation Against YouTube Underway in Germany
You guessed it... Copyright infringement. Look out.

Rights Issues, Monetization Hold Back Online Video
You mean, there could be even more online video than we already have?

Hulu to Charge By 2010
And become a complete failure by 2011

ReelDirector: Full-featured Video Editing Comes to the iPhone
Soon the iPhone will be shooting actual studio features.

Windows 7 Brings Internet TV Features
Take that, Mac People!

MySpace Adds Music Video Portal
Prolonging their inevitable demise as the defunct social networking site.

Children's Hospital to Air on Adult Swim
Marking the first web series they may actually air as shot on television.

Fox Creates Fox Digital Studios
Creating new and derivative programming for digital platform along with its own 15 Gigs.

Search Comments on YouTube In Real-Time
Find those anonymous scathing comments even faster!

How the Web Is Changing TV's Definition of a Hit
It has to involve cats.

Hulu the savior of traditional television? YouTube monetizing a billion video views a week. Balloon Boy explodes! Where are the targeted interactive ads? Social TV is hard. Web video views up 25% per viewer. Reading is fun. Enjoy.

Can Hulu Save Traditional TV?
If Hulu saves it, can we really call that traditional still?

Web Video News Consolidation: Tubefilter Acquires Tilzy.tv
In case you're getting your digital news from sources other than The Download

Google Wave Pulp Fiction
Finally find out what (say WHAT again!) this Google Wave thing is all about in a smart demonstration.

Balloon Boy Unfolds on TV, Web
But mostly web.

YouTube Monetizing More than 1B Video Views a Week
So maybe soon YouTube will be profitable?

YouTube to screen Channel 4 Shows
Catch up on your Brit TV online.

Execs Decry Lack of Interactivity, Targeting in Video Ads
Somebody tell the ad guys about the interactive part of interactive media.

The Viral Video Impact of "The Office" Wedding Episode
New Media supplemented by TV for a change? The world is changing.

Social TV Is Harder Than We Thought
Good thing TV is just as good alone... Might want to get used to it.

Nielsen: Time Spent Viewing Video Online Up 25% per Viewer
We should let the outdoors know we won't be needing it any longer.

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Some very useful links in this weeks Download, including links to help you figure out your production, and figure out where to put your videos online after it's all said and done. And with YouTube getting a billion views a day, that would seem the obvious choice. Enjoy!

Magma Finds Videos Before They Erupt
Great way to stay a step ahead of the crowd.

Warner Music Group Launches Web Strategy 2.0
Let's try this again.

Y,000,000,000uTube
A billion views a day. 80% of which are cats doing inane things.

Redux Gets Into Social Video Recommendations
A little late to the dance, but better late than never.

VidCompare Helps You Find Your Ideal Video Platform
Could come in handy.

New Dimensions in Video -- Without The Funny Glasses
Something revolutionary.

VideoWTF Answers All Your Video Production Questions
Keep this website up while on set.

Traditional Advertising Still Matters the Most
According to Futon Critic.

Alternative TV Viewing Still Relatively Small
Putting things in perspective.

YouTube Grows to Embrace (and Maybe Apply) User Research
I heard the jury's still out on research, though.

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10 things you need to know about the industry as we head into October. Enjoy this weeks headlines in Interactive Media!

Tweet About TV with frog's tvChatter iPhone App
It's not interactive media if it's not connected to Twitter.

What Does NBComcast Mean for Hulu and TV Everywhere?
NewTeeVee takes a stab at answering this conundrum.

Easier Way To Share Private Videos on YouTube
Never understood the point of a private video on the internet.

Syfy rolls out plan to connect viewers in person, on syfy.com, Twitter, Facebook
Wow, even the SyFy channel is telling its fans to go get a social life. Sad.

Newspaper Journalists: The Online Video-Stars of the Future?
Newspaper Journalists sure hope so.

Writers Guild, East Signs 11 New Digital Media Signatories
Great news for interactive media scribes!

YouTube Musicians Launch a Label
Surprisingly not exclusively for cats playing piano.

Be an iReporter with CNN's iPhone App
Your chance to spin the news how you see it.

Google Sites Surpasses 10 Billion Views in August
Online video is still on the rise.

Cheap Web CPMs Making Video Ads Vagrant?
Some dubious doings in online advertising.