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UberGerbil |
A couple of months ago I was wondering why MS wasn't buying YouTube; but then I got to thinking about all the cleanup they'd have to do to bring it into compliance with all the copyright holders: it would become both a shadow of its former self and a huge labor sink. The same argument applies to Google. I agree with Mark Cuban's opinion:
http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID... As soon as there is anyone with deep pockets associated with YouTube, it's going to be drowned in lawsuits. Google Video and MS's Soapbox may be pale substitutes for YouTube, but only until it starts getting the cease & desists. There's plenty of non-copywrited video out there that's interesting, of course, but it's a lot cheaper to host that if you're not also paying expensive lawyers to deal with the copyrighted stuff as well (I also suspect Soapbox is going to get tied to XBox Live). Of course, the "amateur porn YouTube" is certainly a valid business model (but I think that's already been done, too).  |
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ripfire |
Oh come one. We've gone through so many rumors these past years, and we've all seen how it usually turns out. Remember the rumor of Apple using Intel chips? How about the AMD/ATI rumor? Well, maybe not the Intel/nVidia rumor. Still, Google and YouTube was something I've been thinking of a while ago.
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alphaGulp |
YouTube carries a lot of risk though, since so much copyrighted material ends up on there. This type of website can quickly become crippled by court-imposed 'features', at the behest of the copyright holders.
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IntelMole |
So now we have google's pretty decent video searching (at least, the best of a bad bunch) engine, and YouTube's content? Yum.
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2: Get threatened by copyright holders, but explain you have no money for settlements anyway
3: Sell to multi-billion dollar company
4: ...
5: Profit!