YouTube now allowing 15 minute long videos

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Google owned video sharing service YouTube has some good news for regular folks who upload their videos on the service.

Google has increased the time limit on videos to 15 minutes. It has been set at 10 minutes for a long time now.

The time limit was established to prevent people from uploading copyrighted material in whole like movies.

The 10 minute limit has not prevented piracy but it sure posed a major hassle for the users.

YouTube spoke about this new development:

In the meantime, you may wonder “why now?” — the upload limit for non-partners has been 10 minutes for years. Well, we’ve spent significant resources on creating and improving our state-of-the-art Content ID system and many other powerful tools for copyright owners. Now, all of the major U.S. movie studios, music labels and over 1,000 other global partners use Content ID to manage their content on YouTube. Because of the success of these ongoing technological efforts, we are able to increase the upload limit today. We will continue our strong commitment to provide advanced technology and tools to protect the rights of small and large copyright owners worldwide. We’ll also do everything we can to release incremental improvements like this one that benefit our video creators.


YouTube Blog: Upload limit increases to 15 minutes for all users

- July 29, 2010
 
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