[Bobboau]

wow

[Blue Lion]

You knew it was coming

[Unknown Target]

So...good or bad?
I know Google Video had some neat vids, but it didn't have a lot of copywrite stuff (such as music videos, anime, etc). Hope they don't can that stuff on Youtube.

[BlackDove]

Yeah, this is bad. Google Video wasn't free content and they took **** down quite quickly. Same's probably going to happen to Youtube as well. Shame.

[Deepblue]

Ah damn. I hated google video. Youtube was much better.

[Rictor]

Well it was bound to happen, and I'm glad it was Google that did it.

[BlackDove]

That's a good point I guess, it could've been worse.

[Dark Hunter]

Stupidvideos.com could have gotten hold of it. 

*flees from scary thought in absolute terror*

[WMCoolmon]

So the new way to get rich is to make something popular, and then sell it off to a big company for ~$1 billion... (Facebook, Youtube)

[Bobboau]

before the popular thing becomes a black hole of debt, youtube was/is losing cash hand over fist.

[aldo_14]

So the new way to get rich is to make something popular, and then sell it off to a big company for ~$1 billion... (Facebook, Youtube)

New?

[Windrunner]

this year looks more and more like the years of -99/00 when the  big tech companies bought out smaller ones for fantasy prices.

[Goober5000]

before the popular thing becomes a black hole of debt, youtube was/is losing cash hand over fist.

Good point.  They were smart and quite a bit lucky to sell when they did.  And if they're really smart, they'll hedge at least half of the stock they got.