YouTube wack job Tricia Walsh-Smith went into paranoid - and delusional - overdrive Wednesday, claiming her life is being threatened and declaring victory in her courtroom divorce debacle.

"Yes, I said victory," she proclaimed two days after a judge described her as an extortionist meany and granted Shubert Organization President Philip Smith a divorce from her. Victory, she claims, because, "I will not be bullied, coerced or anything."

The alleged bully, of course, is Smith - and his company, she and her lawyer Joseph McCaffery declared in a news conference in the swanky Palace Hotel. A call to Smith's office was not returned. McCaffery accused Smith and his allies of "a concerted effort ... to interfere with Tricia's business relationships, destroy her financially and inflict emotional distress." "Just this morning we have received death threats," he said. The divorce case became international news after Walsh-Smith posted a series of rants against Smith on YouTube.com

Revisiting the rant that made him a YouTube celebrity, Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy didn’t take back anything he said after the Texas Tech game last year. He wished only that he had said it a little more quietly.

“The only thing is that my volume level as it went on increased,’’ Gundy said Tuesday during day two of the Big 12 Conference football media days. “My volume increased during it and the reason why, I think, is my anger grew. If I had to do it all over again, I would have kept it to a monotone level, and maybe that would have decreased some of the coverage I got from that — or the popularity, I should say.’’

After his team beat Tech 49-45 last September, Gundy spent his entire post-game media session making scathing remarks at a newspaper columnist who had been critical of quarterback Bobby Reid, who has since transferred.It’s been downloaded over and over.

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Defendants and plaintiffs in two related copyright infringement lawsuits against YouTube have reached a deal to protect the privacy of millions of YouTube watchers during evidence discovery.

 This comes after a New York federal judge earlier this month ordered Google to turn over YouTube user data to Viacom and other plaintiffs to help them to prepare a confidential study of what they argued were vast piracy violations on the video-sharing site, says The Independent.

Google said it had now agreed to provide plaintiffs' attorneys for Viacom and a class action group led by the Football Association of England a version of a massive viewership database that blanks out YouTube username and Internet address data that could be used to identify individual video watchers. Viacom, owner of movie studio Paramount and MTV Networks, requested the information as part of its $1bn copyright infringement lawsuit against YouTube and Google.

A woman who posted a home video on YouTube of her 13-month-old son dancing to Prince's "Let's Go Crazy" squared off Friday against entertainment giant Universal Music Corp. in a federal court case that tests copyright law.

The issue in Stephanie Lenz's lawsuit against Universal is whether the owner of the rights to a creative work that's being used without permission can order the Web host to remove it without first considering whether the infringement was actually a legal fair use - a small or innocuous replication that couldn't affect the market for the original work.

Lenz's lawyers, from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, say her 29-second video, with fuzzy camerawork and unclear sound, was such an obvious noncommercial fair use that Universal should have to reimburse her for the costs of taking it out of circulation for more than a month last year.

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A robbery victim is going to an unlikely source for justice -- YouTube.Days after family jewelry, a laptop and other valuables were stolen, James Walters is now sharing video of the crime online in hopes a suspect will be busted in cyberspace.After Walters was robbed last August, he decided to install a video camera in his home.

 "I wanted to have a better deterrent and better information to provide to the police if [the robber] came back," Walters said.Walters now believes the same robber broke into his south Charlotte home a second time last weekend. But this time, the man's face and actions were all caught on tape.

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Lionsgate said Wednesday that it would allow YouTube users to watch more of its movies and television shows, marking the top video site's most far-reaching deal with a mainstream Hollywood studio.The studio said YouTube users would be able to see long stretches of movies and TV shows, share them with other users and possibly edit the material or add their own content. Lionsgate will take a share of revenue from advertising viewed with the clips.

The studio behind movies including the Oscar-winning "Crash" and the horror series "Saw" stopped short of saying it would encourage consumers to upload pirated versions of its fare but didn't rule that out for the future.

"We are not drawing any kind of lines in the sand going forward about what we might do," said Curt Marvis, Lionsgate's president of digital media. "One of the best ways to find out how to deal with this new age of digital distribution is to get in there and figure it out."

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Dismissing privacy concerns, a federal judge overseeing a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube has ordered the popular online video-sharing service to disclose who watches, which video clips and when, according to the Associated Press.U.S. District Judge Louis L. Stanton authorised full access to the YouTube logs after Viacom Inc. and other copyright holders argued that they needed the data to show whether their copyright-protected videos are more heavily watched than amateur clips.

The data would not be publicly released but disclosed only to the plaintiffs, and it would include less specific identifiers than a user's real name or e-mail address. Lawyers for Google Inc., which owns YouTube, said producing 12 terabytes of data - equivalent to the text of roughly 12 million books - would be expensive, time-consuming and a threat to users' privacy.

The database includes information on when each video gets played, which can be used to determine how often a clip is viewed.Attached to each entry is each viewer's unique login ID and the Internet Protocol, or IP, address for that viewer's computer.Stanton ruled this week that the plaintiffs had a legitimate need for the information and that the privacy concerns are speculative.

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YouTube has been plagued with inefficiencies in its ad-sales department and Google is apparently ready to abandon its policy of keeping preroll and postroll ads off the video-sharing site.

The news was first reported Tuesday evening by The Wall Street Journal. The newspaper, citing unnamed sources, also said YouTube will generate about $200 million from ad sales this year, short of Google's expectations.

However, the figure is far higher than most of the guesses made in recent weeks by analysts and media pundits. If accurate, it is almost certain to raise questions about what kind of costs YouTube is piling up if if it can't turn a profit with that kind of revenue.

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A U.S. judge's order to Google Inc (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) to turn over YouTube user data to Viacom Inc (VIAb.N: Quote, Profile, Research) sparked an outcry on Thursday from privacy advocates in the midst of a legal showdown over video piracy.

Viacom, owner of movie studio Paramount and MTV Networks, requested the information as part of its $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit against the popular online video service and its deep-pocketed parent, Google.Judge Louis Stanton of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ordered Google on Tuesday to turn over as evidence a database with usernames of YouTube viewers, what videos they watched when, and users' computer addresses.

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Call it this century's version of payola. Sprint Nextel Corp ( NYSE: S). is asking young filmmakers ? a.k.a. YouTube superstars ? to "sell out" by dropping an image of the Samsung Instinct into their short video for $20 to the first 1,000 lucky chosen ones and $10,000 for a grand prize.

At a site dedicated to the device, Sprint plugs the new contest in a hilarious short video that's worth a visit alone. "Shamelessly plug the Samsung Instinct into your home movie ? this summer, turn your loved ones into cash with blatant product placement," a deep-voiced male narrator calls out to viewers. "It's the greatest product placement home movie of all time."

As one Sprint spokesman told MocoNews: "We're paying people to hawk our Samsung Instinct phones in their YouTube videos."

All you need is a short video submitted to YouTube through Sprint's site. You don't need to own the phone or get your hands on one for the video either; Sprint's site features a tool that allows entrants to embed an image directly into their video (including a hand model) with no editing required.

Sprint's video clip about the contest ? a brainchild of its ad agency, Goodby?includes home movies of a baby crawling, cats fighting, a women giving birth and a puppy, so it's clear the company's looking for anything and everything.

There's a long list of fine print, but here's what's most important on the creative side:No more than four people in the video-- English only Video must be 30 seconds to 120 seconds in length No personally identifiable information (last name, address, place of work, etc.)No other products, copyrighted material or trademarks may be included in the submission.