Google buys YouTube. Plenty of discussion about this on Techmeme and other sites, but here are my thoughts:
- Google is one of the few companies that can afford YouTube’s bandwidth bills.
- Google has current content deals that may legitimise some of YouTube’s copyright infringements.
- Lawsuits will be coming. Guaranteed. But there are just so many eyeballs/pageviews in this that the media companies would be silly to shoot themselves by pulling their content.
- Will someone please for the love of god improve Flash video compression?
Interesting times.
[tags]google, youtube, gootube[/tags]
