Google buys YouTube

[anarky]

It's apparent that Google bought YouTube after only 18 months in existance for a nice tidy figure of US$1.6B (AU$2.2B). This is according to SBS World News on TV.

http://www.youtube.com

There are a lot of issues with the buyout in relation to the copyright breaches found all over the site. The fact that nobody has taken YT to court over these breaches is because copyright owners have nothing to get out of them. Now that Google has bought them, there is a shitload of money sitting there for copyright owners to get onto. Therefore, Google will have to take all the protected stuff offline, potentially stripping half of the site's contents, and driving users away. There are a lot of comments in reply to this guy's concerns: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saYLgWw7SeI&NR

What about you?

Perhaps this should be in the Debate forum?

[LooseCaboose]

Everybody seems to be jumping to conclusions before anything has actually happened. Copyright owners did have something to gain before Google owned Youtube, they could have had their videos removed (and many were) or in an extreme case had the site closed down (ie Napster).

People also seem to be forgetting about video.google.com. Google video doesn't quite have the customer base of Youtube, maybe they just want to expand.

Is something wrong with the url tags or do I need more sleep? I couldn't get them to work.

[anarky]

Funny, they work here.

[zoasterboy]

omg

[Kevin_theprogrammer]

omg

No OMG when the people who owned YouTube beforehand are going to keep control.

[zoasterboy]

Thats cool. Just like Alexander the Great.