Google’s Plan B with YouTube

Posted in IPTV, News on March 27th, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.

Last week News Corp and NBC Universal announced a joint venture to create a YouTube competitor. This article from Tech Crunch is a summary of what’s known so far about the yet to be named (at least from it’s creators) competitor.

Meanwhile, as we reported a week ago, YouTube is being sued by Viacom for 1 billion dollars. Many couldn’t understand the logic behind buying a company that sooner or later would be underwelmed by lawsuits. This article presents a plausible scenario. here’s a summary by a Digg commenter:

Google’s future lies in crawling and caching video/books/images/web pages. If Youtube got sued and lost, the legal precedent would hurt Google. Therefore, Google buys Youtube and lends it a helping hand with its copyright lawyers and massive amounts of resources.

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