markopoleo
join:2003-04-02
Bonne Terre, MO |  Terrible purchase.
Goodbuy Youtube, hello YouBuy. |
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Greg_Z
Premium
join:2001-08-08
Springfield, IL | As known as "You will not last long".
The last to be known as YouTube. YouTube was damned from the beginning.
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amungus
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join:2004-11-26
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and now they can censor everything they want... or reset counters for video's which present alternative views of things... hmm... very interesting.
oh well. maybe now they can work together to improve the quality.
good for google. hope they can also work out presenting tv shows for free somehow. I miss ess.tv. |
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Elite
join:2002-10-03
Orange, CT | Competition
There goes Google's biggest competitor...
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chemaupr
join:2005-06-06
Alexandria, VA
1 edit | will see..
google better has a good strategy, because this is way to much money for a "social website" that does not generate profit and will not in a long, long time...
plus, now all the companies seeking suing for copyright have a bigger target! |
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taar
join:2000-11-21 | Nice move Google
Hopefully the studios and record companies will work something out with mighty google instead of threatening to sue little YouTube into oblivion. If they are still headstrong, i guess Google can buy them out and fire the top brass.... |
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morbo
Complete Your Transaction
join:2002-01-22
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Mark Cuban be damned... |
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tmc8080
join:2004-04-24
Floral Park, NY
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I smell an AOL / TIME WARNER style deal in the works!
While I'll concede that video is set to "explode" in the next couple of years as a more viable app over the internet, this deal reeks of bad ideas. Its as if google was trying to find a way to buy a company who can "deal" with it's copyright woes in a "once and for all" kind of way.. but that's not a good enough motivation to buy youtube, is it? |
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dvd536
as Mr. Pink as they come
Premium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ | A sad day
if you can't beat em, buy em |
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TKJunkMail
Enjoy the sun
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join:2002-03-03
Avalon, NJ
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Re: Nice move Google
said by taar  :Hopefully the studios and record companies will work something out with mighty google instead of threatening to sue little YouTube into oblivion. If they are still headstrong, i guess Google can buy them out and fire the top brass.... YouTube already announced deals today with CBS, Universal, Warner Music, Sony BMG before the Google announcement. I am sure those deals were based on Google taking over YouTube and all the shared ad revenue expected.
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chemaupr
join:2005-06-06
Alexandria, VA | reply to dvd536
Re: A sad day
google is just becoming another MS... |
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Toadman
Hypnotoad
join:2001-11-28
Medina, OH | reply to markopoleo
Re: Terrible purchase.
Terrible Purchase, why buy something that is loosing money and that you can do yourself. There is absolutely no intellectual property or market gain that Google will gain, atleast not worth that money.
Bad buy! |
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TKJunkMail
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Re: A sad day
said by chemaupr :google is just becoming another MS... They are now on the Wall St treadmill. They have to keep those stock analysts and the shareholders happy.
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Jonbo298
join:2004-01-12
Council Bluffs, IA | reply to taar
Re: Nice move Google
Yeah, google will enjoy the fighting over copyright. At least YouTube's "founders" doesnt have to deal with the legal fees  |
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JSRoman
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join:2005-03-10
Callahan, FL | reply to TKJunkMail
Re: A sad day
Does anyone here think google is worth $400.00+ a share? Google is way overpriced especially for a freaking search engine.
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hayabusa3303
Over 200 mph
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join:2005-06-29
clubs: | Sick and tried of Google.......
sorry i had to vent.. 
Upon reflection, I do not wish to post. Take me back! |
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Rick
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join:2001-02-06
Waterbury, CT
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1 edit | And, the winner is....
the owners of you tube who get to walk away with 1.65 Billion!
Yep. That's right! They get to walk away from a company that undoubtedly would have wound up going down it's own tubes from lawsuits...and walk right back into it now much richer, and as Google employees.
Imagine the restful nights sleep they'll finally get to have tonight knowing that all those headaches and liability now is being sold to Google.
This company, it's founders, and it's whopping 60 something employees were never ready for this kind of almost instant success the likes of which probably hasn't been seen since ebay's rise to popularity.
And actually, I think credit has to be given to the recording and media industry who stayed away from the lawsuits and inflammatory rhetoric to try to give them time to figure out how to handle what was occurring.
I doubt though that was due to their new found generosity though, but rather to the years of negative publicity they have had to endure because of their legal tactics in other arenas. They knew that a legal attack on you tube, and it's huge popularity among so many users, would backfire on them.
And so, wisely..this time around..they stayed off in the shadows waiting for something like this to happen.
Everyone probably wins, except those of us who have loved it for what it probably never could remain for the long term, which has been essentially a place for unfiltered access to any video we ever wanted to see.
What it will become is a place that the copyright holders dictate what's going to be shown, as long as they get their piece of the ad generated pie as well.
Google in the meantime, for a mere FRACTION of it's own 130 Billion dollar market value, gets to take out the internet leader in the video marketplace and replace it's own 11% share with the top spot..at least for a while.
The deals are already being announced today. The industry has been waiting for this.
And, it all really boils down to this statement in the article I attach to below.
"YouTube gets access to Google engineering that could, at the flick of a button, automatically filter out copyrighted material," he says. "The potential lawsuits go away if the technology problem is solved"
The real question though is this.
With that flick of a button, does YOU TUBE really also go away?
I think that answer is a pretty clear Yes..it will.
At least what it has been that has attracted so many to it.
It'll still be around, in some form. Well, lets face it, in the form that has put google at an 11% market share to this date.
Anyways..who wins?
The you tube founders who built the company that never really could be, Google who takes #1 for pennies on the dollar..the recording and media industry who get things to be their way with no lawsuits..
and, you and me?
I think we all know that answer.
»news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/invest···YwNyaGw- |
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Dagda1175
join:2001-06-17
Goleta, CA | Let me repeat my comment from the last thread.....
how does this work? a company that makes all its money from advertising (a fairly flimsy model if your remember the bubble) buying a company that doesnt seem to have a way to make money at all...
what is step two, huh?? |
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AlexNYC
join:2001-06-02
Edwards, CO | YouTube = Google Video
I wonder if they will intergrate it in Google Video since they where direct competitors. |
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Subaru
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join:2001-05-31
Greenwich, CT
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Re: A sad day
said by JSRoman :Does anyone here think google is worth $400.00+ a share? Google is way overpriced especially for a freaking search engine. damn thats what it's at now? hmm last year I think it was like $350 or something like that? |
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