Mark Cuban’s Perspective on Google/YouTube
Amit Chowdhry | Tuesday October 10, 2006 | 370 views
There are two things that I give Mark Cuban credit for. The first is by buying a stake of ownership in the Dallas Mavericks (who picked up one of my new favorite players in the last NBA draft, Maurice Ager). The other thing I give Mark Cuban credit for is offering insight to Chad Hurley and Steve Chen on their newly found money.
On Mark Cuban’s blog, he tells the YouTube founders to “Ignore all the scammers who want your money, and dont listen to all the tax scammers who want to save you money on taxes.” Mark Cuban founded Broadcast.com which was bought by Yahoo! for $5.7 billion in stock. Broadcast.com has now evolved into Yahoo! Music service (formely known as Yahoo! Launch).
Cuban also brings up many other interesting points about the new Google/YouTube collaboration. For example, a bitter Time Warner (who also owns FOX and MySpace) may become extra aggressive about taking legal action against YouTube for hosting many illegal videos of their TV shows, The Simpsons and Family Guy. In terms of YouTube allowing free, unregulated uploads, Cuban also mentioned that “It will be interesting to see just how google reconciles selling videos like Crazy in Love from Sony, when the same video is available as a user upload for free from youtube.”
Although I have never seen an episode of The Benefactor, I do agree with Cuban’s stance on copyright infringement. If YouTube and Google are willing to take the responsibility of allowing users to upload illegal content without permission, then the companies that work hard to provide material should be compensated somehow. If the Kazaa founders didn’t think content providers were due compensation, why else would they pay the RIAA $115 million to settle copyright infringement suits. As much as I do not like the RIAA as an entity, I do feel empathetic towards artists that work hard to create the music that we enjoy on a daily basis.
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