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Why Google Wanted a YouTube Lawsuit 105

An anonymous reader writes "After YouTube was purchased for $1.6 Billion, there was rampant speculation that Google would soon be waist-deep in billion dollar lawsuits. Despite the enormous liability issues, Google purchased YouTube for a mind-numbing sum, leaving many doubters wondering if Google considered all of costs involved. A theory has been put forth explaining what Google may have been thinking when it bought the company." From the article "Letting YouTube fight this battle alone with their own lawyers might have resulted in a very public and unnecessary loss that would have crippled Google's video ambitions and possibly caused collateral damage to a bunch of related industries (especially search)." In short, the author argues that Google had a lot more to lose had it kept away from YouTube and let the old-media companies crush it with lawsuits."

Comment Massive adhoc network (Score 1) 100

Semi off topic but I have been thinking about this lately. Why aren't all cars equipped with wifi? Traffic on highways is normally dense enough to give you a adhoc connection to any other car in the state. I dunno what you would do with that connection but it would be really cool. Some simple ideas it could provide ways to inform other drivers in your local network of accidents and delays. I am sure other people could come up with more interesting uses of such a network.

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