I read some recent blog post on the Google-YouTube acquisition. Look at the chart at http://googlelogs.blogspot.com.
One question immediately pops up. Didn’t the first step get taken to a total monopoly of the user-contributed media market for video? If so, is that good or bad? Personally I am skeptical. We will see. Obviously and without any doubt, the next thriller and power struggle will be between MySpace and GooTube. I’ll guess I have to get some popcorn for that thriller.
The owner structure behind media companies in the US have been discussed for quite some time now and many people (including) me have argued that the user-contributed media is the way to go. It still is. However, this acquisition calls for a discussion about the ownership structures behind this today established arena of the internet. Does the anti-trust case ring a bell here?
Do we really want to have the famous flash movie EPIC 2014 realised?
I don’t!
Note: Bruno Giussanni offers an excellent post on the whole scenery of the aquisition even before it was revealed. You can find his post here.
