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Any ideas why Yahoo, didn't relaunch broadcast.com - as soon as youtube was known to be getting popular - they could have squashed them. (relaunch in the same s

by redorb 19y ago

Any ideas why Yahoo, didn't relaunch broadcast.com - as soon as youtube was known to be getting popular - they could have squashed them. (relaunch in the same space, not old broadcast)

utnick 19y ago
probably they were scared of getting sued for all of the copyright violations on user generated video sites like youtube
- staunch 19y ago
  YouTube had the huge advantage of being a little startup. They didn't have enough assets to make them a very worthwhile target for a billion dollar law suit. Scribd is in a similar situation I think. Startups can afford to be super daring.