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by jfoutz 6190 days ago
Because, if youtube is ever profitable, they will be sued. over and over until the end of time.

much better to just miss breaking even. Shovel all the user data into doubleclick, and all the video data into crazy data mining algorithms.
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_cbsz 6190 days ago
On the surface, your argument has intuitive merit. However, you don't sue a business unit (Youtube), you sue a company (Google). Google is profitable.
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jfoutz 6190 days ago
On the surface, your argument has intuitive merit. However, youtube isn't a business unit. it's a subsidiary.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/01/look-ahead-at-google-... http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-6153267-7.html

edit: sorry, that was sorta snarky. and things may have changed since the viacom lawsuit. (it was a subsidiary in late 2008)

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_cbsz 6190 days ago
Touche! Didn't do my homework on this one.
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