Google Buying YouTube

[Diplo]

More often then not people write loose in place of lose. It's just weird that people would make an error like that so systematically.

Yeah, I do it all the time (even though I have a degree in English). There seems to be some words that when you specifically type them that the brain mangles and this gets worse, for me, the better I get as a typist. When I couldn't type at all I never made the mistake, but now when I type without thinking about the act of typing, I do. When I re-read my post I noticed it straight away. Internet dyslexia. Ho hum. Anyway.... back to the topic...

 

[Frank]

Don't forget, that Google already has the bandwidth needed, and an almost unlimited amount of storage, as they buy cheap PCs for their datacenters, but store all the WWW content in RAM. They can run a YouTube service almost for free. Hell, they could store all new newspapers and books, and their storage needs still wouldn't expand at a faster rate as with which their storage capacity grows.

 

[arjan de lumens]

A somewhat interesting take on why Google would want to buy YouTube: http://battellemedia.com/archives/002973.php

Basically, YouTube may very well be a huge copyright infringement lawsuit magnet, and that may be exactly why Google is buying them

 

[eSa]

Quality 'tube material

Might just as well do some dirty band pimping;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYHxMkbg1s8&mode=related&search=

Not the best song from the band but just look the overall performance...
These people should have gotten all the credit that for example Evanescence (and similar bands) have gotten.