A lot of people have been saying this.....
But if you actually think about it; it makes a lot of sense. I will expain....
Google owns Ad Sense. Google needs traffic to fill out all their Ad Sense deliveries. What was google's last advertising space purchase? 900 Million to MySpace.com. For their 900 Million, Myspace will be able to advertise on MySpace.com but gets no ownership of MySpace right?
SO....with this being said....with YouTube what they have decided to do is...Rather than purchase advertising space and walk away with nothing; spend a little more and own full advertising rights and own the site itself.
From this perspective it makes a lot of sense. If you want to get into the potential legal issues of YouTube; thats a different can of worms. But I would hope atleast that Google has done their legal research.
One last note that applies to ALL businesses. Something is
WORTH what someone is will to
PAY. So if somebody is willing to pay 1.65 Billion for MySpace; then thats what its worth
