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  • 07 Nov 2006 at 12:16 PM
  • Google

Verizon To Plunder The Sanctity Of LonelyGirl15 In The Name Of Revenue

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An agreement would allow Verizon’s customers to view some of the most avidly watched entertainment on the Internet. That could advance the long-expected convergence of video and cellphones. It could also, at least temporarily, give Verizon a marketing edge over its rivals in the wireless and cable industries, furthering the company’s efforts to expand into Internet and entertainment services.
Under the terms being discussed, customers of Verizon Wireless — Verizon’s joint venture with Vodafone Group PLC — would be able to view some YouTube videos on their cellphones through the carrier’s premium V Cast service, people familiar with the matter said. Verizon Wireless, like other cellular providers, has been adding video and data services to offset declining revenue from its calling plans.

LG15 fans are likely to be conflicted about this news. On the one hand, Verizon is using their girl for its own selfish gains. On the other hand, now we they can watch her from anywhere.
Verizon, YouTube Aim To Bring Web Videos To Cellphones, TV [WSJ]

    • 30 Oct 2006 at 12:08 PM
    • Google

    Comedy Central Versus YouTube

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    googtubelogo3.JPGThe news that Google owned YouTube took down the ubiquitous Daily Show clips and other material from Comedy Central got a lot of play over the weekend. But, as TechTraderDaily noticed, it’s not at all clear that the purge is actually working. There are hundreds of Daily Show, Colbert Report and South Park clips still available on the site. So what’s going on?
    One possibility, raised in this video, is that Googtube is only deleting videos that last longer than five minutes. Is there some maximum time for stolen videos? Comedy Central owner Viacom did not return our request for comment.

      • 20 Oct 2006 at 1:28 PM
      • Google

      Google-YouTube: It Starts With The Japanese Porn

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      You’re on notice, Page. Brin– you escaped our ire only because we realize you’ve got bigger– Lonlier– fish to fry.
      YouTube Removes 30,000 Files Amid Japanese Copyright Concerns [WSJ]

        Mark Cuban Admits He Was Wrong But GoogTube Might Still Be In Trouble

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        googtubelogo3.JPGA few weeks ago bloggging tech mogul Mark Cuban wrote that anyone who bought YouTube would be immediately sued by the media companies whose copyrighted materials make-up so much of the most popular material on the video sharing website. Now he’s admitting that not only hasn’t this happened following the acquisition by Google, but it wasn’t ever likely to happen.
        But not because the media companies don’t care about their copyright. And not because they just love YouTube so much they’ve decided to let the kids play with their content. It’s because they are suing smaller video sharing websites, building legal precedent favoring strong copyright enforcement and gaining leverage for negotiations with GoogTube.

        If they can win some judgements saying these little sites are not protected by Safe Harbor rules, then they have all the leverage in the world to dictate licensing terms to sites that until now have not proactively enforced copyright but have instead chosen to rely on rightsholders takedown notices. If one of those sites has deep pockets, then it could turn into a payday for rightsholders, whether via lawsuit or licensing terms.

        I Was Wrong [Blog Maverick]

          • 12 Oct 2006 at 10:18 AM
          • Google

          Google-YouTube: Another Day, Another Nerd’s Virginity Lost

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          googtubelogo3.JPGTwo Three Kings:

          For Jawed Karim, the $100,000 or so he would have to spend on a master’s degree at Stanford was never daunting. He hit an Internet jackpot in 2002 when PayPal, which he had joined early on, was bought by eBay.
          On Monday, still early in his studies for the fall term, he got lucky again. This time he may have hit the Internet equivalent of the multistate PowerBall.
          Mr. Karim is the third of the three founders of the video site YouTube, which Google has agreed to buy for $1.65 billion. He was present at YouTube’s creation, contributing some crucial ideas about a Web site where users could share video. But academia had more allure than the details of turning that idea into a business.
          Mr. Karim, who is 27, became visibly uncomfortable when the subject turned to money, and he would not say what he stands to make when Google’s purchase of YouTube is completed. He said only that he is one of the company’s largest individual shareholders, though he owns less of the company than his two partners, whose stakes in the company are likely to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars, according to some estimates. The deal was so enormous, he says, that his share was still plenty big.

          Big enough for choice grade hookers AND mint condition Star Wars dolls, we’d imagine. Not that we’ve crunched numbers on this kind of thing. But it’s big enough, we hear.
          With YouTube, Grad Student Hits Jackpot Again [NYT]

            Did YouTube Cost Less Than Nothing?

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            googtubelogo3.JPGWe pointed out the other day that Google had bought YouTube for about 1% of its equity. The Big Picture takes the analysis one step further, noting that after the rise in Google’s share price following the acquisition, Google essentially picked up YouTube for free.
            And if the stock keeps climbing, well, then Google picked YouTube up for less than nothing. The market is paying Google to buy YouTube.
            Google Buys YouTube — for Free [The Big Picture]

              • 11 Oct 2006 at 10:48 AM
              • Google

              YouTubers React to YouTube Purchase

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              YouTubers have begun posting videos reacting to the Google acquisition. Despite fears that getting scooped up by a big company might tarnish the YouTube’s image in the minds of its most loyal users, the overwhelming majority of these videos seem very positive. Far from crying “sell out,” most users seem happy with the Google buy—perhaps hoping that their little corner of fame on the internet will become a little bit bigger.
              The video we’ve embedded above is actually quite imaginative in its vision of what GoogTube might look like.