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Eh, theres always Verizon. AT&T cant get out of its own way anyway. If the govet wanted to block something, they should have stopped Google from buying youtube.

• pyre 15y ago
  I'm curious. Why Google and Youtube?
• sek 15y ago
  Why? Are you aware that the only reason for Youtube's success the infrastructure of Google is? This is also the only reason why there is no real competitor.
  • wanorris 15y ago
    Are you sure? YouTube was successful before they were purchased by Google, so I'm not sure how Google's infrastructure could be the only reason.
    • jonknee 15y ago
      YouTube was tiny in comparison when Google bought them. They did an admirable job scaling to where they did, but it wasn't easy and it was still jut the beginning. They served ~100M videos a day and today serve over 3B videos a day (many in HD, which wasn't supported in 2006, the videos then were much lower quality). The amount of incoming video has also grown exponentially. The YouTube we know today is because of Google and their technical chops.
      • wanorris 15y ago
        OK, but the only reason (as per the post I was responding to originally)? Those ~100M videos a day were about 99M (I'm guessing here) more than Google Video was doing at the time. I believe you that Google's technical prowess was a necessary condition to get YouTube to where they are today, but I find it hard to believe that YouTube did nothing whatsoever to warrant becoming the original name brand of web video in the first place.
        • sek 15y ago
          The reason is the peering, the traffic volume of Youtube is not profitable without peering infrastructure.
• gmisra 15y ago
  There aren't any yous or tubes in Doubleclick, get a spell checker.