Speculation on Google / YouTube "Hardball"

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday October 31, 2006 @09:39AM from the stream-no-evil dept.

An anonymous reader writes, "Interesting speculation on the 'GooTube' deal, oozing with corporate intrigue. Based on Mark Cuban's blog and a subsequent ZDNet blog posting, it seems as though there might have been some dodgy goings-on just prior to the deal. In short, YouTube may have handed the major labels approximately $50M so that the labels would turn a blind eye to the copyright infringements AND go after the competition to cement YouTube's position in the market. Universal started the ball rolling a week after the deal by suing Bolt and Grouper." Cuban's blog does not identify the author of the speculation, who calls himself "an experienced veteran in the digital media business." Cuban writes that this is someone he "respects and trusts."

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The artist formally known as.. by QuantumG · 2006-10-31 09:45 · Score: 3, Funny

"an experienced veteran in the digital media business."

Oh my god, it's Prince!

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Mark Cuban's Blog?!?!?!?!?!?!? by Anonymous Coward · 2006-10-31 10:04 · Score: 1, Funny

WTF is wrong with him! He's a billionaire and he has a blog? Jesus MF Christ! If I were a billionaire I'd be fucking supermodels and doing shit that I always wanted. I'd also be doing things to try to make the world a better place - a blog isn't one of them!
That being said, maybe that's why I'm not a billionaire, millionaire, and why I'm fucking broke.
He's still an arogant prick, though!