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burnden58 · Post by **burnden58** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 10:00 pm

The two lads who owned You Tube have just sold it for £800 million to Google

Apparently it has only been going for a short while. The two twenty year olds will get approximately £400 million each.

I wish I'd thought of it

cowdrill · Post by **cowdrill** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 10:01 pm

£900 i read

its the slowest website ever created anyway

burnden58 · Post by **burnden58** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 10:14 pm

I'm sure it was more than 900 quid

Bruce Rioja · Post by **Bruce Rioja** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 11:49 pm

burnden58 wrote:The two lads who owned You Tube have just sold it for £800 million to Google

From what I can gather, the £800m is in Google shares, and being as Google is ultimately worth nowt until somebody's prepared to stump up the hard cash then nor are it's shares. That's what I heard on t'radio, but I couldn't claim to know one way or the other.

Henrik's fan club · Post by **Henrik's fan club** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 11:51 pm

Bruce Rioja wrote:
burnden58 wrote:The two lads who owned You Tube have just sold it for £800 million to Google

From what I can gather, the £800m is in Google shares, and being as Google is ultimately worth nowt until somebody's prepared to stump up the hard cash then nor are it's shares. That's what I heared on t'radio, but I couldn't claim to know one way or the other.

If it's £800 million in shares they could immediately sell and get £800 million....or else they'd not be £800 million of shares they'd just be some shares

Batman · Post by **Batman** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 11:53 pm

£1.7bn

communistworkethic · Post by **communistworkethic** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 7:52 am

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6034577.stm

You'd struggle to sell £800million in one go - you'd need one or two individuals to agree to do so as the market couldn't handle such an off-loading of shares without the price being slashed to accomodate the "supply and demand" issue.

keveh · Post by **keveh** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 9:24 am

Bruce Rioja wrote:
burnden58 wrote:The two lads who owned You Tube have just sold it for £800 million to Google

From what I can gather, the £800m is in Google shares, and being as Google is ultimately worth nowt until somebody's prepared to stump up the hard cash then nor are it's shares. That's what I heard on t'radio, but I couldn't claim to know one way or the other.

Have you never seen terminator 3?

That computer that takes over the world......

google.

Batman wrote:£1.7bn

dollars

Bruce Rioja · Post by **Bruce Rioja** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 9:49 am

And another thing. How does YouTube get around all the copyright laws?

keveh · Post by **keveh** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 10:20 am

They do remove stuff that has copyright on it, it's just they don't sit there all day checking for it.

Basically, the people who own the copyright will find it, notify youtube, they will then remove it.

norm the jedi · Post by **norm the jedi** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 10:22 am

Bruce Rioja wrote:And another thing. How does YouTube get around all the copyright laws?

They've already negotiated with Sony and others to avoid any Napster type nastiness....

and the acquisition resulted in 4bn [usd] being added to Googles value as institutional investors filled up our pensions with google shares.. So not a bad deal... for Google ..

bobo the clown · Post by **bobo the clown** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 10:46 am

burnden58 wrote:The two lads who owned You Tube have just sold it for £800 million to Google

Two twenty year olds will get approximately £400 million each.

OK - who do they support ?

Athers · Post by **Athers** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 12:07 pm

$1.7bn and they have 67 employees. Been operating for under 12 months, amazing.

I believe Bebo, valued at $500m+ has 14 employees. Facebook has something similarly ridiculous and that's worth $1bn.

A few years ago (or months ago in YouTube's case) these bright sparks realised that the internet was turning from receptive to creative user input and after 2 years work they won't have to work again.

Bastards

a1 · Post by a1 » Wed Oct 11, 2006 12:38 pm

i'll bet ebaumsworld and them are pissed off.... youtube is popular because you dont have to have codecs and media players and dont have to piss about getting stuff to play it just does it all thru flash ... easypeasy...

thats what i think..

you dont even need to download the vid first as it streams off their compys.. you cant 'keep' them afterwards like, but i suspect that was the point ...

keveh · Post by **keveh** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 12:53 pm

a1 wrote:i'll bet ebaumsworld and them are pissed off.... youtube is popular because you dont have to have codecs and media players and dont have to piss about getting stuff to play it just does it all thru flash ... easypeasy...

Fk ebaumsworld.

They have made money off using content other people have made and sticking an "ebaumsworld.com" watermark on it.

http://www.ebaumsworldsucks.com/

http://ebaumsworldsucks.com/articles/flash.html

a1 · Post by a1 » Wed Oct 11, 2006 3:24 pm

Fk ebaumsworld.

They have made money off using content other people have made and sticking an "ebaumsworld.com" watermark on it.

http://www.ebaumsworldsucks.com/

http://ebaumsworldsucks.com/articles/flash.html

i've heard stories [before].. sumert with stealing a video from the you the man now dog site ..

ebaums is like a pron site with all its popup windows and tracking cookies .... not worth the trouble .. youtube pisses on it from a height so far up that the piss evaporates before reaching ebaum... uber pwnage style ...