Mar 25, 2007
NBC, Fox — Forget youtube. How about the China problem?
Well it looks like the youtube wars are heating up, with the team of bullies NBC, U-NewsCorp, FOX, MySpace, MSN, Yahoo, and AOL teaming up to fight the youtube/google threat.
Meanwhile, despite the fact that I can’t get to see a single episode of the Daily Show on youtube anymore (only tiny bullshit clips) — Chinese video sites like tudou, youku, 56.com, 6rooms all can get away with hosting what appears to be full seasons of Prison Break and other shows:
Prison Break on tudou, Prison Break on youku, Prison Break on 56.com, Prison Break on 6rooms
If youtube wants to win the war of online videos, they should just relocate to China, where they’d enjoy apparent immunity like the sites I’ve listed above.
Does this remind you of the mp3 wars a few years ago? Remember when the RIAA subpoenaed those students at Georgia Tech for illegal downloads?
Meanwhile Baidu had, and continues to have, an mp3 section on it’s site. Just some food for thought, I guess…
Are all these Chinese sites untouchable?
Or do all these companies just enjoy picking on the little guys?
Maybe youtube just needs to re-locate to China to solve all their problems?
In any case, as usual, here’s your:
China Stolen-Media-of-the-Day
The entire first season of Lost, courtesy of youku. My friend Casper introduced me to this one, and I got addicted to it right away. It’s one of those shows that you know is kinda stupid, but you just can’t help from watching the next episode anyhow. Anyway, you’ve been warned. I’ll post links the second and third seasons for ya later on.
YouTube has already ‘won the war’ against other video companies. The war remaining is against copyright authorities.
Youtube’s alliance with the BBC was a decent foothold into establishing mainstream content, and giving the RIAA/MPAA/etc something to thing about.
My fear for the future regards Net Neutrality (or lack of) and copyright organisations bribing ISPs to block specific content providers. If tudou.com server significant content to the US I’m sure ISPs would respond to MPAA complaints very quickly. Reverse Firewall of China.
NBC, Fox — Forget youtube. How about the China problem?…
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Yeah, youtube is pretty solid as of now. But it’ll be interesting to see what kind of online content the other side is gonna counter with. Supposed to be an announcement thursday, I believe.
Chinees antwoord op YouTube…
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70.000% groei (!) in een week in de Alexa movers en shakers lijst: Youku. Voor zover ik Chinees kan, lijkt het allemaal erg veel op YouTube: van de schermindeling en de verschillende menuut…
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