Get bought for sh*t loads by Google, thats how

Apperently deal done this morning Us time (US morning)

Not a bad business plan. tbqfh.

They were in talks but looks like they got somewhere

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6034577.stm

Not said for how much though but if its any where at 1.6 billion nothing to be sniffed at really is it, lol.
Lucky gits.

Says $1.65 billion in the beeb link

I wonder what theyve invested in bandwidth so far. :shock: Theyve had to pay for some serious servery volume for a while.

Google just anounced what they will do with it

They will keep it more or less the same but will offer video uploads for amature and the pro (sony etc) and the revenue it makes from things the site will give a chunk to all people who have uploaded a video

Interesting

Did not realise Youtube has only been up since febuary last year, and to sell for that much. The guys there must be rolling on the floor going nuts, party for them all week now

Now all the lawsuits will start flying at Google for having content which is breach of copyright. :-/

yeah the good bit about youtube was its total and utter lack of respect for copyright laws.

Expect all of the music and tv shows to leave youtube imminently

If I was a company wanting to fight someone over copyright, Id rather have fought YouTube than Google tbh.

Google may "dont be evil", but they have the financial and strength of numbers clout to potentially make changes to the way we get our media content beyond the scale of what has yet been seen.

Quote from: SteveFyeah the good bit about youtube was its total and utter lack of respect for copyright laws.

And this is a good thing?

You will be supprised, there are a few deals done with youtube and some media elements, Free advertising not decent high quality video so ok.
Why do you think some tv clips and music espcially stay on for so long on youtube either for a length of time or all the time.

You may be right that its now google and not a nothing company so some may wnat to bleed them for cash but i bet you there is a lot backdoor deals with youtube that alrleady exist and probably more for google otherwise they would not risk buying it for so much.

I bet you a big chunk of that money is for those deals youtube had

The only reason people didnt legally f*** youtube was because they had no money.  Hope google keep it locked down  :shock:

be interesting to see what happens with it now. I hope it doesnt clog with advertisements - Id hate it if every file has a 10 second intel commercial at the beginning grrr....

Quote from: Rivkidbe interesting to see what happens with it now. I hope it doesnt clog with advertisements - Id hate it if every file has a 10 second intel commercial at the beginning grrr....

me too, I just click away at that point and find another file to download