http://perspicacity.wordpress.com/2006/10/08/youtube-the-new-speakers-corner/ Freeing myself from 30 years of conditioning Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:19:47 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://perspicacity.wordpress.com/2006/10/08/youtube-the-new-speakers-corner/#comment-4 wagdog Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:32:09 +0000 http://perspicacity.wordpress.com/2006/10/08/youtube-the-new-speakers-corner/#comment-4 Well Google has been buying up a lot of dark fiber so shouldn't have any shortage of bandwidth, whereas YouTube's burnrate was pretty astronomical so the deal probably saved them from becoming a dot bomb. The price the users pay is that Google may enforce more strict controls on copyright violations if they are to merge the GoogleVideo and YouTube business models. We'll just have to see if this means an end to clips recorded off CableTV. Well Google has been buying up a lot of dark fiber so shouldn’t have any shortage of bandwidth, whereas YouTube’s burnrate was pretty astronomical so the deal probably saved them from becoming a dot bomb. The price the users pay is that Google may enforce more strict controls on copyright violations if they are to merge the GoogleVideo and YouTube business models. We’ll just have to see if this means an end to clips recorded off CableTV.

]]> http://perspicacity.wordpress.com/2006/10/08/youtube-the-new-speakers-corner/#comment-3 limejelly Tue, 10 Oct 2006 08:38:27 +0000 http://perspicacity.wordpress.com/2006/10/08/youtube-the-new-speakers-corner/#comment-3 How do you feel about google buying youtube? How do you feel about google buying youtube?

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