Only a moron would buy YouTube?

"The only reason it hasn't been sued
yet is because there is nobody with big money to sue."


Huh? I dont understand this statement..

Does the NFL not have enough to sue

or how about fox?

Is it because the clips are short in length that they are not
illegal? I dont know. There are definitely enough clips on there
that have rights owned by some major companies.
 
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"The only reason it hasn't been sued
yet is because there is nobody with big money to sue."


Huh? I dont understand this statement..

Does the NFL not have enough to sue

or how about fox?
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I believe this statement was from the perspective that YouTube as a company does not have a large amount of cash or significant assets. It is not worthwhile suing YouTube from a monetary recovery perspective. It is unlikely that you would get enough cash in the suit to cover your lawyer fees.

Now if a big company with lots of cash & assets purchased YouTube then it would be worth suing because then you could get billions of dollars in damages potentially from the big company that owned YouTube or at least shake them down for mere hundreds of millions for copyright infringement.

- Greg
 
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I believe this statement was from the perspective that YouTube as a company does not have a large amount of cash or significant assets. It is not worthwhile suing YouTube from a monetary recovery perspective. It is unlikely that you would get enough cash in the suit to cover your lawyer fees.

Now if a big company with lots of cash & assets purchased YouTube then it would be worth suing because then you could get billions of dollars in damages potentially from the big company that owned YouTube or at least shake them down for mere hundreds of millions for copyright infringement.

- Greg
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Oh, I gotcha.. that makes sense.
 
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Now if a big company with lots of cash & assets purchased YouTube then it would be worth suing because then you could get billions of dollars in damages potentially from the big company that owned YouTube or at least shake them down for mere hundreds of millions for copyright infringement.

- Greg
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And that is exactly what Cuban was referring to...
 
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And that is exactly what Cuban was referring to...
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Oh yeah, I'm sure he is being completely transparent about his true intentions.

Get real, the way youtube operates now, if you actually have a problem with copyright infringement, they will take it off and QUICK. I point to the UFC fights as a perfect example that it does not take much to fix the problem.

It's not like the problem is out of control and unstoppable as it was with Napster.
 
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Oh yeah, I'm sure he is being completely transparent about his true intentions.

Get real, the way youtube operates now, if you actually have a problem with copyright infringement, they will take it off and QUICK. I point to the UFC fights as a perfect example that it does not take much to fix the problem.

It's not like the problem is out of control and unstoppable as it was with Napster.
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Hydro is correct.
The YouTube "copyright problem" no longer exists.

As someone who has posted a lot of stuff on YouTube...
I would estimate that approximately 10% of the clips at most...
Are taken down within minutes/hours of an official, verifiable complaint by the copyright holders.

The ** vast majority ** of copyright owners...
Have realized that low quality versions of their art on YouTube...
Is a huge free advertising boost.

This is the era of the "long tail" is music/movie sales.

Famous Wired Magazine article:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.10/tail.html?pg=2&topic=tail&topic_set=

A rule of thumb used to be that the Top 20% of music/movies accounted for 80% of sales...
And only they were profitable.

Those days are gone.

In online sales... almost any sales level is profitable...
Amazon and ITunes have proven you can make a lot of money on obscure stuff...
And YouTube is playing right into the "long tail"...
By promoting 1000s of Tier 2 and Tier 3 acts.
 
oh mr cuban ???????????????? can we get a statement?:eek:

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http://www.blogmaverick.com/
 
The only thing I remember about Mark Cuban is he said on TV he was short a "truckload" of dotcom stocks, right before one of the major bottoms in the nasdaq in 2002.
 
If Yahoo hadn't have made the moronic decision to buy Broadcast.com (a worthless piece of shit) Cuban would be working for minimum wage at Dairy Queen.
 
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