Oct
09
2006
Google to Buy YouTube

Well, you probably didn’t hear it here first, but it’s official: Google is buying YouTube.

Which makes sense. Google is perhaps one of two companies that can make this move and not worry about being sued into oblivion by copyright holders who have been salivating, waiting for YouTube to actually have some money worth suing for.

I’m curious what The “Google is Evil” contingent will do again after the inevitable Great Purge of copyrighted material happens. On the one hand, it will look like Google is caving to The Big Corporations. On the other hand - what, should Google be above copyrights entirely? It was cute when YouTube, that scrappy little startup, got away with it. With Google it’s a whole other story.

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