[Osx-nutters] YouTube video policy takes on iTunes | MediaGuardian.co.uk

[Patrick Coskren]

On Aug 17, 2006, at 4:02 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote:
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> <http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1852278,00.html>
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> Mark Sweney
> Thursday August 17, 2006
> MediaGuardian.co.uk
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> YouTube's plan to provide "every" music video free is a "nail in  
> the coffin" of the paid-for online content business model and  
> potentially threatens the dominant position of Apple's iTunes,  
> according to City analysts.

Uh... is that as stupid as it sounds?  Unless there's some obvious  
widget I've missed, YouTube is streaming only, which makes it no more  
of a threat to the iTunes music store than the hundreds of Internet  
radio sites I get to though, um, iTunes, actually.   I guess you'd be  
able to select which video you watch, but until you can download it  
to a device, it's just not in the same market.

> The video filesharing website, where 100m clips are watched every  
> day, is in talks with Warner Music and EMI to offer music video  
> downloads for free. Revenue will be provided by advertising.

No way are Warner and EMI going to let people *permanently* download 
[1] their videos for only advertising dollars.  Streaming I can  
believe, since it's basically just MTV-on-Demand.

What, did YouTube just feed the Guardian a press release?

-Patrick

[1] As opposed to streaming, I mean, which could technically be  
called downloading.