GOOGLE buys YouTube
The deal is done.
This is very good news indeed. http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/sto...10-09-17-46-48 |
Will it be merged with Google Video?
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You won’t see that much of a difference in YouTube but it is a very big advertising opportunity to Google. With so many people trying to sue YouTube for copyright violation they had no choice but be bought by Google since Google can deal with legal issues better than they can and Google has better technology that can deal with copyrighted material.
There is going to be a lot of competition in online video distribution and Google knows that they need as many allies as possible knowing that they are going to have a very severe battle against the likes of AOL, Verizon, Microsoft, Amazon, Netflix etc. As we know it the internet is changing and Google becoming this powerful is a very good thing because a lot of people want to privatize the internet. With Google’s video service, independent Producers and Journalists have a way to make money by selling their programs online with the potential to reach the same amount of people as the big film companies although Amazon and FilmBaby is just as friendly toward independent producers which is why I think a partnership with Amazon or Film Baby would be just as good as a partnership with Youtube. |
I think I'm going to start calling it GooTube. (that's gonna catch on!)
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At first I thought it was a reference to pornographic content. . .
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I'm surprised that Google (or any other company) would want to pick up YouTube due to all the legal issues. The only thing I can figure is that as already mentioned, it's a huge potential advertising venue with all that traffic. Perhaps they feel there's a lot of ad revenue to be made there if they can stave off the litigation. |
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Or 'Yoogle' |
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I posted a link to an article in area 51 before the deal was done:
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So, if you can tell me how Google is better equipped to sort through 200,000 or more submissions per day consisting of descriptions like "chk dis out d00dz!!!" and a filename of b1z0tchpwnsyerm0m.wmv and internal file info headers all left blank or filled in with complete garbage and still be able to tell me if the clip is in violation of someone's copyright, then please do. |
Attrition.
It's all about catching a few. Millions of people speed every day and don't get caught. Millions more WOULD but don't because they've BEEN caught, or know someone who's been caught, or know they can't afford to get caught. |
Here's an interesting development:
http://www.technologyreview.com/read...04&ch=infotech They are using facial recognition to track characters and create an index of sorts. They used Buffy as an example, and they also used closed-captioning information and original scripts, so that made it easier. But the idea of keying on faces for indexing raises a lot of possibilities in filtering copyrighted material. |
Here are some Google bits of information.
'Gootube' deal ups the ante for Google's rivals http://www.theage.com.au/news/biztec...455663117.html The search for influence: Google becomes a political player http://politics.guardian.co.uk/media...930030,00.html I know that this sounds political but it does tie into their video distribution goals. Amateur 'video bloggers' under threat from EU broadcast rules http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...407359,00.html This may end up being a bigger problem to Google than copyright violations |
YouTube, a rival to mainstream cinema?
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