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Old 10-09-2006, 11:03 PM  
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Google buys YouTube

well, looks like google is 1 step closer to net domination. they are gonna buy youtube for 1.65 Billion dollors (thats right, BILLION!)

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Youtube isn't even a year old yet, and the owner is becoming a billionare...Cool. 8)
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google buys youtube

nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooo ad ads and more ads and also youtube is getting law suits because of this nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
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Errm...

I dont mind google buying them... you guys?
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i already posted a thread about this yesterday, 1 hr after it happened
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whoops soz kinda just saw it on the news can close it
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yea i know this is gonna suck! i like google and all...but YouTube is its own thing! theyre gonna be so "nonyoutubeish" probably...but no time for assuming all the time, we should wait and see with our own eyes (its probably not gonna be that bad, but its not gonna be THE ORIGINAL!)
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I bet it will be the same as it was before... no major changes... just somebody diffrent at the head of the company.
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but because some of youtube is ilegal because of music vids that mean thats gonna go and more plp will start sueing google becaus eits famous see its a bad move
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i was thinking "how is google videos gonna beat youtube" there we have it. buy youtube, this means we can post almost anything because youtube had rights to some things.
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Music videos on the internet isnt illegal, think about it this way, Broadcasters show music videos on tv, and you only pay for your tv licence,
well, broadcasters on the NET show it, and you pay for your broadbandinternet what ever, and plus, its not downloadable videos.
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theres extentions for firefox that lets u download youtube videos.
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Yeah, but its not a very common thing used
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lol, just saying. its a way of downloading the videos and distributing them through P2P (even tho they put the quality shit, google shoulf fix that)
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Hmm, i just thought, why the hell do google want youtube when thye have google video o.O
And its not like youtube made much of an income anyway, is it?
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u mist not know. $1.2billion is a lot. _ it was in competition with google videos.
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They only payed 825 million for youtube, thats what it said on the media board.
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