Comments on: cuban takes on gootube http://sawickipedia.com/2007/03/07/cuban-takes-on-gootube/ a geek's take on the world Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:39:09 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: todd http://sawickipedia.com/2007/03/07/cuban-takes-on-gootube/comment-page-1/#comment-7 todd Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:22:43 +0000 http://www.sawickipedia.com/blog/2007/03/07/cuban-takes-on-gootube/#comment-7 So close, so close especially given the buyout it would have been so good for all of us :) Next time you have a chance to buy a company I'm at - I won't let you get away this time. Anyway, I totally agree about encoding.com - and the amazing thing is we talked about that. We even wrote a plan for a youtube service for consumers called myhomemovie.com based on our web-based encoding site (mediaupgrade.com). But we realized that if anything inappropriate got uploaded we would need to take it down or get the rights. And so we started doing that for music (the dominant format for content in 1999). In retrospect it makes you wonder whether the market actually respects companies who play the rules. I think I found my next post. So close, so close especially given the buyout it would have been so good for all of us :) Next time you have a chance to buy a company I’m at – I won’t let you get away this time.

Anyway, I totally agree about encoding.com – and the amazing thing is we talked about that. We even wrote a plan for a youtube service for consumers called myhomemovie.com based on our web-based encoding site (mediaupgrade.com). But we realized that if anything inappropriate got uploaded we would need to take it down or get the rights. And so we started doing that for music (the dominant format for content in 1999). In retrospect it makes you wonder whether the market actually respects companies who play the rules. I think I found my next post.

]]> By: mark cuban http://sawickipedia.com/2007/03/07/cuban-takes-on-gootube/comment-page-1/#comment-6 mark cuban Wed, 07 Mar 2007 23:22:04 +0000 http://www.sawickipedia.com/blog/2007/03/07/cuban-takes-on-gootube/#comment-6 Hey Todd... it was close ! And we havent flooded yet simply because we havent had the time or resources to do it... Yet. We are looking for interns. And you are right. This is about bringing this to a head. Gootube wants to pretend its a service provider and can hide behind the DMCA. Could you imagine where encoding.com could be if they just took everything they hosted and put it on a portal ? Hey Todd… it was close !

And we havent flooded yet simply because we havent had the time or resources to do it… Yet.

We are looking for interns.

And you are right. This is about bringing this to a head. Gootube wants to pretend its a service provider and can hide behind the DMCA.
Could you imagine where encoding.com could be if they just took everything they hosted and put it on a portal ?

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