> YouTube clearly shares a lot of infrastructure with the rest of Google That's the least of the problems. If there is the will to spinoff YouTube they can agr

> YouTube clearly shares a lot of infrastructure with the rest of Google That's the least of the problems. If there is the will to spinoff YouTube they can agree to rent that infrastructure and the people running it for, let's say, five years and see what happens next. No software will move, nobody will change desk or laptop. Paychecks will come from the same company. Then they'll gradually figure out if they want their own infrastructure in case the goals of the two companies get in the way of each other and YouTube has little leverage against Google.