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Impending death of YouTube is greatly exaggerated

Written by Stan Beer

Thursday, 05 October 2006

Page 2 of 2 Both of those videos, and vast quantities of other highly original and entertaining home-made clips have been viewed hundreds of thousands of times. A YouTube visitor could trawl through the site for days and never exhaust an endless supply of highly entertaining original material not subject to any copyright restrictions. Of course there are also all of those illegally posted clips of The Simpsons episodes, snippets of Jay Leno and a heap of other stuff. However, YouTube could survive quite comfortably without those clips. My view is that most people visit YouTube to see something different and original rather than poor quality re-runs of parts of TV shows. If YouTube follows up its Warner deal with a few more, then the site will become even more interesting. Looking at the clips on YouTube tonight, I see that one of the top clips is actually a snippet from the Tonite Show of a week ago with Jay Leno which was posted by NBC. If Universal Music and wants to get narky and sue YouTube (and MySpace), then I'm quite sure YouTube will gladly remove all offending Universal material that has been posted. If Universal insists on pursuing a few million in damages, there will be no shortage of backers for a site that is now one of the highest ranking sites on the web. YouTube is a site that has original content galore and it is so popular that NBC and soon others will be lining up to use it to promote their shows. It bears no resemblance at all to the original Napster. So, no Mr Bernoff, it won't be shut down. I guess that makes me another soft-headed thinker eh?{moscomment} Tags See All Tags Internet  blog  video  Get stories like this delivered daily - FREE - subscribe now When you subscribe get a 12 months license for LiveProject Valued at $99 USD Download the FREE iTWire desktop alert widget << Start < Prev 1 2 Next > End >>

 

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