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

[Kevin Callahan]

On Aug 17, 2006, at 1:17 PM, Patrick Coskren wrote:

> 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.

agree

>
>> 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.

yeah

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


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