Videos Continue to Spread Online

[Jason Tate]

News Corp and NBC are joining together (http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2040632,00.html) to challenge YouTube.
The NBC/News Corp service will let users watch clips and whole episodes of shows including Heroes and My Name is Earl, from NBC, and 24, House and The Simpsons, from Fox. It will offer a selection of films, including Fox productions such as Little Miss Sunshine, The Devil Wears Prada and Borat as well as Universal hits such as The Bourne Supremacy.

[snakeinmyboots]

wow if they offer their own content it could compete, but the thing that makes youtube so great is that most of the content is created by people who aren't trying to make money and are doing it just for the fun of it.

[xearlynovemberx]

thats pretty cool

[bellaregazza]

definitely taking advantage of that...if it ever does happen

[IAPAI]

Great, another site that will tell me that Copyrights prevent me from viewing any of the content outside of the U.S.

The rest of the world is still going to watch YouTube or Daily Motion.

[joshuagilbert]

dope

[shtjames]

wow if they offer their own content it could compete, but the thing that makes youtube so great is that most of the content is created by people who aren't trying to make money and are doing it just for the fun of it.

word

[StandMyBrothers]

I bet you the Borat movie is going to crash.

[azrielen]

wow if they offer their own content it could compete, but the thing that makes youtube so great is that most of the content is created by people who aren't trying to make money and are doing it just for the fun of it.

Well people will still do that on YouTube, if it survives the lawsuit. (And if it doesn't surely some new site will come up to take its place.) I know I'll still go there to see certain people's work and browse for fun.

As for this article, FINALLY they might be getting the idea of what people want. Maybe this is a step in the direction that these companies should have taken a year or two ago.

Also, I must say the guys that ran YouTube before seem to have sold it just in time. ROFL. Lucky bastards.

[Chevy114]

I don't think people get why youtube is so cool. It's not just that they have tv shows on their, they actually let the users post whatever videos they want and then let other users rate the videos. This sounds like shitty attempt at tyrying to do what youtube does.