The company, in an effort to bring up money for this, has sold itself to video search and aggregation site GoFish, for about $30 million in stock (GoFish is traded on OTC board). UMG sued video sharing sites Grouper and Bolt.com for allowing users to swa
12.5 percent of the equity issued and issuable is subject to escrow for one year to secure certain indemnification obligations. Based on the $1.5 billion amount, that should be about $187.5 million.
Hat sich Google mit YouTube ver-kauft? Schon jetzt ist klar, dass es dort nicht weitergehen kann wie bisher. Der Erfolg der Videoseite fordert Opfer. Regeln für die Veröffentlichung werden nötig - doch so etwas hat schon anderen den Spaß und das Gesch
Armed with this kitty of money Youtube approached the media companies with an open checkbook to buy peace. The media companies smelled a transaction when Youtube radically changed their initial 'revenue sharing' offer to one laden with cash.
YouTube is a hopelessly inefficient way for consumers to steal copyrighted video content off the web. It's well suited to the negligible-attention-span clips that its users post up there, to music videos and to teasers and excerpts from longer (copyrighte
If no one is going to sue anyone for copyright infringement anymore, maybe you could upload stuff you dont have the rights to and get paid by generous people who want to transfer some dollars via PayPal to you.
Google (or whomever) should resist falling for the chimera of traffic stats and millions of videos watched. These stats from Hitwise show that while things are not going as well for Google Video, they are not that bad either if they decided to work alone
Grouper’s recent sale to Sony for $65 million suggests a YouTube valuation of around $2 billion when you look at relative traffic. YouTube may get their $1.5 billion in the near future. But first they’ll have to find a buyer with a strong stomach for
YouTube soll eine Mrd Dollar wert sein. Nur wirds wohl keiner kaufen. Denn wenn es ein Network kauft dann kaufen sie sicher gleich jede Menge Prozesse mit ein. Und die Internet Giganten sind nicht sonderlich interessiert.
