Tuesday, October 17, 2006

WEB NERD ALERT: YouTube's successor

Now that Google has purchased YouTube for an INSANE amount of money they'll undoubtedly start becoming more strict on the copywritten material that USED TO float through YouTube (and end up on people's blogs [eh-hem] and websites) because Google is such a large and noticable company that all their services will be under extreme scrutiny from the Laws. Especially a video service like this one where everybody and their momma knows you can (or used to be able to) find anything you wanted to see on YouTube. Well, except pRoN.

So, with that in mind, I introduce to you, YouTube/Google-Video's probable successor, which I discovered yesterday while viewing the NYOIL video.



Bolt provides basically the exact same service (and a little more) as YouTube but they will be able to do it under the radar for at least the short-term future I'd assume. Meaning, they'll have all the copywritten content that the Laws will now keep YouTube from posting (ie - Jay-Z's new video). So if you can't find it on YouTube people, I suggest going to BOLT.COM (waddup Jay).

(UPDATE: So it's like I was saying about the crackdown on copywritten material posted on YouTube: They snatched 30,000 files real quick like)

(UPDATE #2: I'm not the only person "getting it".)

"If all the good stuff on YouTube is being removed until the video sharing service gets a copyright license, does this mean there are fewer reasons to even visit YouTube?"

YES! YouTube is totally a FEATURE and not a PRODUCT! YouTube is a service anybody else out there with a lot of internet market-share can emulate/reproduce.

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