Even better, acquire the #2, DailyMotion. But that's impossible: the company is French, and partially owned by the French government which keeps its companies

Even better, acquire the #2, DailyMotion. But that's impossible: the company is French, and partially owned by the French government which keeps its companies valuation as low as possible by forbidding US companies to acquire DailyMotion. Yahoo! wanted to buy the company, and the "French Productivity Minister", no joke, killed the acquisition.