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Mark Cuban Declares War on GooTube
PreacherTom writes "Mark Cuban — the billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks, tech entrepreneur, and self-proclaimed 'blog maverick' — has always been outspoken in his ridicule of Google and YouTube. Now, it appears he's willing to put his money where his mouth is. Cuban is so convinced that GooTube will be a failure that he is in the process of acquiring the news agency owned by Robert Tur, currently involved in serious litigation with Google over copyright violations. With billions on both sides, this could be a real clash of the titans."
Who in the FUCK modded me down as overrated?! I was making a valid point. as immature as it may seem, when it comes down to money in "grown up" life, it seems that the jocks who make it big STILL like to pound down the geeks. Do you honestly think there would be business people into computers if it wasn't profitable? They buy into the internet thing because they suddenly developed brains, they got into it because it's where the money was. Where as the geeks (guys like the two that started Google) got into it for the love of computing. But as soon as it all becomes VERY profitable, then the idiot jock hordes come in to get their slice of the action and they try to make sure that the geeks get "put in their place". I speak the truth and you fucks who mod me down know it. That's why you're modding me down. Fuck you! Fuck you with a red hot soldering iron!
-"...bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology" - Jaron Lanier (Digital Maoism on Edge.o
Newsflash, too: people using legal actions (be they plaintiff or defendant) as a motivation for their purchase of companies all the time.
Or is it because Google is hailed by you as all that is good with the world and people shouldn't be allowed a dissenting opinion?