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[tekbunly]

AlternativeNick, on Oct 12 2006, 02:19 AM, said:

some updated information, i read in the newspaper again today

youtube owners had met with a few of the multimedia giants, and convinced them that allowing copyrighted material to be posted would benefit the media companies, because it allowed people who use the internet as their sole entertainment medium can now be exposed to TV shows and movies, that otherwise they would have never seen, bringing more viewers to the networks, theaters, etc. so no copyright suits are seen in the near feature

This is very smart business by Google, like what all of you said. Eliminating competition by being the competition. Youtube has been the most popular video uploading site in the internet as of late, more so than google and yahoo. And I can only see more benefits for youtube user, such as the bandwidth and space capacity to upload videos. Regarding the copyrights issue, you mean now we can watch our favourite shows on youtube.com and there will be no restrictions on it being a copyrighted material?

[kiev11]

thats what i also heard this maybe true but i hope not as youtube was a very good company as they are please correct me if im wrong but google sometime lies about things but so did youtube

[ro0ster1]

1.65 billion dollars!!!!
thats a lot of money.

[Tran-Gate]

They bought it for 1.65 billion dollars but now they are getting sued for one billion dollars by Viacom......Kinda sucks though, doesn't it?

Oh and doesn't Viacom own Neopets now?