Lucas Chan :: Weblog

There’s lots of banter going around today about Google acquiring YouTube. Jason Calcanis reckons it makes perfect sense, I’m still not convinced.

Google’s search business makes so much money that they could leave the YouTube service the way it is and make back their $1.6B in 6-7 years just by putting Google search boxes all over the site.

I think the main reason that no one has sued the pants of YouTube yet is that they don’t have any money. As soon as there’s money to be made from suing them they’ll start being hit with litigation. If someone is going to buy YouTube they’re also buying into a legal time-bomb, which is going to take a lot more than 6-7 years of search/adsense revenue to recover.

So anway, let’s see what happens, I may be chowing down on humble pie yet. :)

Update: I was wrong.  So very, very wrong.  I’ll take cream with that pie, thank you.

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