First it was Brazil that banned YouTube, then Turkey decided to do it, and now Thailand got in on it.

A Turkish Court recently ordered that YouTube be banned because of a video that insulted the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. It was no joke to them, and now YouTube fans in Turkey are going to have to go without their favorite videos.

After dealing with numerous copyright issues, Google is taking a step to filter movies uploaded to YouTube. According to Mercury News, Google has taken on technology from Audible Magic that will be used to deal with unauthorized videos that appear all over YouTube. While this move protects Google from further copyright issues, it could very easily draw some of their massive crowd away.

When Viacom pulled out the carpet underneath YouTube, I’m sure YouTube wasn’t expecting it was because there was someone else coming into the picture. Viacom left, and headed on over to Joost which is just getting their start.

Ever since Google purchased YouTube, they've been getting pretty friendly with the law. Recently, YouTube received a Subpoena from the U.S. District Court in Northern California to identify the user who uploaded episodes of 24, as well as 12 episodes of the Simpsons, both popular shows.

It was just over a week ago that Google was demanded by Viacom to remove 100,00 video clips.

On Wednesday, a regulatory filing that Google made with the SEC revealed the details of the Google/YouTube deal. And in that deal were some unlikely recipients, many of which became instant millionaires.

Viacom who owns brands like BET, MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, Spike TV and several others, has demanded that YouTube remove 100,000 videos.  That's over 1.2 billion streams that are to be removed immediately.

YouTube is continuing their quest to promote creativity. The rumor has been floating around the Internet for quite some time now, and finally Chad Hurley, co-founder of YouTube has confirmed that they plan on sharing advertising revenues with users who submit original videos. Good news for inventive users, bad news for those who just post copyrighted material.