NBC, News Corp Join to Create YouTube Clone

Brett writes "It's official: NBC Universal and News Corp have announced their plans to create a video sharing site of their own. The joint venture will features both TV and movie shows in full length, including episodes of '24,' 'My Name is Earl,' and movies like 'Borat.' The plan is to also syndicate content on other portals like MSN, MySpace, and Yahoo! It's unclear how YouTube's previous deal with NBC relates to this, but it's clear that the major players are now shunning YouTube."

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I have a question

[stratjakt]

Is any video sharing site to be labelled a youtube clone?

Just like newbies to the intarweb would think that Yahoo is a "google clone"?

Is this a "Apple invented the computer, mp3 player, and are currently inventing the phone right now and we cant wait" type of a deal?

I just remember seeing video on the internet pre-youtube.

Re:And so ends YouTube

[MrAnnoyanceToYou]

Um...........

You really think the people in charge of this little venture know that 'mashup' is a word that sometimes doesn't involve food?

Be serious. This isn't going to end YouTube. This might cause a little healthy competition. Honestly, I'm kinda disappointed because YouTube isn't clusterf*d with video ads all the time, and this will be. There's little chance you'll get to watch short clips of pieces of the Daily Show. You'll get to watch the entire thing, and commercials will come with. Lame? Yeah, kinda.

And my bet is their solution will be DRM enhanced. Another little bit of lame.

Re:If you build it they will come

[vought]

This will fail miserably.

-Can't store content for future use.
-Windows/Explorer ONLY
-Advertising
-Crappy format

And most importantly:

PEOPLE DON'T SIT AT THE COMPUTER TO WATCH HALF-HOUR SHOWS.

Apple has this figured out. Why do these people feel the need to reinvent the wheel?*

*Actually, it's to make themselves feel smart. When this fails - and it will - they can blame filesharing, technology, or some other bugaboo.

That's funny

[Z0mb1eman]

Almost every discussion about music, movies or TV shows here has countless replies saying "But the industry doesn't GET IT, man!! Their business model is OUTDATED!! If they gave me this content for cheap with no DRM I wouldn't have to pirate it!!"

So here comes an announcement that they'll be putting content online for FREE - and they'll be the ones making the money from the ads, not youtube, which seems only fair to me - and again I see replies of "but the industry doesn't GET IT!!". I think that's kinda funny.

This site could go either way, but to me it's the first indication that they might be starting to "get it".