YouTube – Google’s problem child?
March 5, 2007 · Print This Article
One of the biggest topic technology writers continue to write about almost on a daily basis is the challenging facing Google with its recent acquisition YouTube like the excerpts from the article below demonstrates:
In a clip posted on YouTube shortly after Google said it was acquiring the popular online video site for a whopping $1.65 billion, YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen jokingly referred to the deal as two kings getting together.
Five months later, the two kings have been quietly trying to make the merger successful, even while wrangling with several critical issues:
Even as it strikes more than 1,000 agreements to put basketball games, classic television shows and other material online, Google faces mounting pressure from Hollywood to manage the copyrighted clips that continue to appear inappropriately on its YouTube site.
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