Will Gootube loose its edge?

Now that Youtube is in acquisition process by Google for $1.65 billion, it has made itself a huge milking target by other companies.

About a week ago, nearly 30,000 clips of TV shows, movies and music videos were purged from Youtube after the Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers cited copyright infringement. Now, Viacom is asking for all copyrighted materials by Comedy Central to be removed as well so don’t expect any of the shows from â€œThe Daily Show With Jon Stewart,â€ â€œThe Colbert Reportâ€ and â€œSouth Parkâ€ being available on Youtube anytime soon.

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As far as I can recall, this is the first Google acquisition that is riddled with tons of liabilities and risks. Expect more purging to come.

Looks like the cleaned up Youtube might suffer the same fate as Google Video. I reckon one day Youtube will also have to do manual reviews of uploaded clips before publishing it.

Will John C. Dvorak’s predictions hold true? That in the long run, this buy-out will only hurt Google and attract more lawsuits — all for a couple billion more page view inventory.

Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

https://www.yugatech.com

5 Comments

Fleeb says:

18 years ago

I never thought Google was a monopoly. It would be something like if 70-90% of internet users are using Google and nothing else.
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jhay says:

18 years ago

Proofs that monopolies must be stopped. Especially in the web
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elmer says:

18 years ago

First, here;s the good news.
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6130881.html?tag=zdfd.newsfeed

Then, the bad news.
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6130868.html?tag=zdfd.newsfeed

There you go, the future of YougleTube
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GUrbi says:

18 years ago

Buti nga sa Google… :)
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Mike Abundo says:

18 years ago

Contrary to the derivative myth, the best stuff on YouTube is user-created. Because of that, TV networks are actually encouraged to maintain presences on YouTube.

The big media companies shouldnâ€™t worry that people will post their copyrighted material on YouTube. They should worry that people will post their own stuff on YouTube, and audiences will watch that instead. â€” Paul Graham.
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