Google Swallows YouTube Whole

Google has done the easily thinkable, the completely imaginable, for an utterly unbelievable price.  $1.6 Billion in Google stock has been transferred to the owners of YouTube in exchange for YouTube stock (which was privately held).  Guess what this means, folks?  The party's over.

Get the firefox extension I linked to a few days back when I wrote about South Park, or another tool like it and download your favorite videos because there is simply no way to reconcile Google's multi-billion dollar bank account with ownership of this copyright lawsuit waiting to happen.  They're going to have to weed through YouTube's entire library and start ripping out videos by the handful.

And to clarify, Google will not do this because they are evil, or have turned into heartless, cruel corporate giant-types.  They have, but that's besides the point (I'm kidding.  I love you Google!  We're still getting together tonight, right?)  No, Google will do it because the mere liability YouTube represents forces their hand.  They stand to lose millions, at the very least, if they stand idley by and wait for the original meaning of "You Got Served" to make itself abundantly apparent.

So browse through like mad and download like crazy because it's all going BYE-BYE!

- one

P.S. - The opinions of the above commentator do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Dark Logistics, other commentators, Google, YouTube, Symantec or John Kerry.  They do not even reflect the opinions of the above commentator.  Piracy of copyrighted material is a serious crime punishable by the RIAA, MPAA, ATF and  Secret Service raiding your house at 4am and waking you up with the stock of an MP5 to your ribs.  So make sure you use anonymous proxies when you download.