YouTube: When All Else Fails… Become iTunes
This week YouTube’s founder, Steve Chen, said he hoped to have the free music video download service running on his website within 18 months.
Source: SMH.COM.AU, “YouTube Kills the Video Star.”
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I think he just stepped in over his head and his mouth wrote a check he can’t cash. No one was making money off of viral videos when he started up YouTube, so there was no business incentive to stop YouTube. There are business incentives to nip YouTunes in the bud, I think.
get eefoofed!
Towards what pointless end, eefoofer? Why would I submit myself to the vagaries of a bunch of 14 year-old moderators who are more interested in preserving their fiefdoms than driving traffic to the site?
Pffft,I’d rather floss (and if you’ve seen my teeth in one of my recent videos, you’d know that’s saying something!)