View Full Version : Youtube bought by Google for $1.65 Billion
http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/google_youtube.html
The move follows on the heels of Google's convincing Sony and Warner Music to put music videos online for free. Reportedly, YouTube will retain its brand and all its 67 employees, including co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen.
BR3TT
11-10-2006, 03:59 PM
1.65 billion.
Man I need to start my own company.
Free porn or something.
BR3TT
11-10-2006, 05:27 PM
Oh by the way
http://shuth.funkyninjas.net/other/cat_iminurtruck.jpg
HAHAHAHAHAHA
THAT PWNZ!!!
Beneh
12-10-2006, 10:23 AM
Racism now, ay
Fun9RY
12-10-2006, 11:33 AM
http://www.wark.csiro.au/library/gifs/spy.jpg
Vids have already hit youtube about the purchase...
Youtubes frontpage, in googles hands. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UItu93WspwY)
banzai
21-10-2006, 04:02 AM
It'll be interesting to see how google tackles all the copyright issues.
What copyright issues? Everybody keeps talking about them...
The users upload their own movies & click the "I agree with the terms & conditions" before uploading. Which explains that you must be teh copyright owner of the video or it will be removed.
YouTube has also signed a deal with Time Warner to show music videos on there.
So what other issues are there?
Here is an update (http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Story.aspx?guid=%7B52DAE3DD-70D2-4206-80A7-A809363944E9%7D&siteid=)
From the article:
"Its prompt legal capitulation suggests that YouTube users who post copyrighted material should not expect the company to protect them from media-business lawsuits, said Colton, whose firm wasn't involved in the Paramount subpoena or lawsuit and who learned of them from a MarketWatch reporter.
The 'Twin Towers' episode is reminiscent of the way the entertainment industry vanquished the first version of Napster Inc. and other digital-music sites that made it easy to download copyrighted songs over the Internet.
Music company lawyers first warned and then sued individual users who downloaded their songs. Now it looks like piracy hunters for the movie studios are using the same technique against YouTube users."
RavenKittie
23-10-2006, 06:39 PM
http://blogs.pcworld.com/digitalworld/arch...be_you_win.html (http://blogs.pcworld.com/digitalworld/archives/2006/10/youtube_you_win.html)
Sometimes things go your way, sometimes they don't. Just as a Japanese entertainment group has asked YouTube to pull nearly 30,000 copyrighted video clips, CBS has launched its own sanctioned channel on the popular video sharing site.
The Japan Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers asked YouTube to remove 29,549 TV shows, music videos, and movies posted on the site without permission. (YouTube promptly complied, though I'd hate to be the peon responsible for that endeavor.) Meanwhile, CBS has launched its own YouTube channel featuring clips from Letterman, CBS News, and some of the great sports moments of our time such as Duke's buzzer-beating shot over UConn in the 1990 NCAA Basketball Tournament. (NBC already has a channel on YouTube, featuring trailers and clips from the Tonight Show among other things.) Both channels need work--but at least entertainment execs are starting to realize the value in sharing content with fans, rather than fighting them.[/b]
Wonder what Google will buy next... seriously... remember that flash animation where Google sued The Times or some crap, and became bigger than Ben Hur , maybe it's happening :o
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