Peter Marshall

Irvine

CEO, The Identity Guardian

These moron MBAs and pretend MBAs never fail to get it wrong.

YouTube's model is completely different from Napster, and they will not lose copyright suits. Unlike Napster, they eliminate any copyrighted material, and are making efforts to block it even w/o getting notified... the article mentions YT's approach, but completely fails to point out how critical this is to determine any liability. 1) no damages, 2) no fault, 3) clear good faith, 4) backed by professional actions, investment, and resources.

YouTube will die for a completely different reason. It is doing absolutely NOTHING that others won't do BETTER. In particular, both Google and Myspace have better info and better capability to suggest other materials I want to watch, and to provide Tivo-like capability -- both of which are key to making this service a winner. Many other players have key elements as well -- in the future, there will be MANY channels of this type, so the media companies have lots of aces.

YouTube will end up being a blip in history, like VisiCalc, outdone by superior competitors, pretty quickly.