"(...) there are a couple immediate challenges posed by [the Google] transaction. First off, there's some explaining to be done to Google's new partner News Corp. Google agreed to pay News Corp. $900 million dollars to put its advertising systems to work on MySpace and other Murdoch-owned web sites. Despite some differences, YouTube and MySpace are both after the same thing -- pulling together communites of users and getting them to post content. Are they on a collision course? Seems likely.
The other problem that may be coming is the likelihood that YouTube is going to keep Google's lawyers and engineers very busy trying to keep copyrighted material off the site or fighting with copyright holders. Again, despite many promises that all of this is going to get worked out, the problems -- both legal and technical -- are substantial. And thus far, no one has any real answers.(...)"
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