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Same fears we're very loud when Google bought YouTube. GOOG fell 15% because of that IIRC.
by deepsun 2y ago
Same fears we're very loud when Google bought YouTube. GOOG fell 15% because of that IIRC.
- epolanski 2y agoIt was a huge bet, it paid off for many reasons, not least luck. I remember 2005/2006 there were many websites competing for the video-website role, YouTube's luck was that...they were very permissive on uploads while competitors like Vimeo e.g. employed a reasonable amount of content moderators.
- deepsun 2y agoYep, and investors' fear was that it would crumble under copyright lawsuits.