GoogTubesque.

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Originally uploaded by benbarren.

I wonder where all the people who said YouTube was going to go under because of their Austin Powers 1 esque $1m dollars a month (a number that also wasnt even confirmed btw) in bandwith costs and legal issues. Where there's smoke there's fire, even if the deal or one like it, takes quarters to happen. Owning TV online is too big a prize. (esp if you already have a 12 figure market cap) Schmidt, Page and Brin, the Stanford Geeks are going to have full revenge of the nerds on Hollywood. Life is stranger than fiction.

John Battelle : "This is why I think Google and YouTube make sense: no one else can position themselves in this way to Big Media. Other Big Media companies will sue the shit out of whoever buys YouTube. But Google has one hell of a legal team, and it's entire business is based on the DMCA safe harbor. "We're not here to compete with you guys for content creation," Google says, "we're here to partner with you!"