Mark Cuban Declares War on GooTube 295
PreacherTom writes "Mark Cuban — the billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks, tech entrepreneur, and self-proclaimed 'blog maverick' — has always been outspoken in his ridicule of Google and YouTube. Now, it appears he's willing to put his money where his mouth is. Cuban is so convinced that GooTube will be a failure that he is in the process of acquiring the news agency owned by Robert Tur, currently involved in serious litigation with Google over copyright violations. With billions on both sides, this could be a real clash of the titans."
Titans (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, it could be, but we're calling it "GooTube".
*Tsk Tsk* Have we learned nothing? (Score:5, Funny)
Only a moron would buy YouTube (Score:5, Funny)
Open up a Western Front (Score:5, Funny)
In retaliation, Sergey Brin has just announced plans to buy the L.A. Clippers.
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And on another note, why does it matter how rich these people are? Yeah, I know. It was a rethoric question. The real quiestion is; why the hell do we take this situation without the least bit of critiquie?
Re:Titans (Score:5, Funny)
One sounds like a glue, the other a brand of European yogurt.
Re:Wait... (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:The Classic Battle (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Sour grapes (Score:3, Funny)
Dude, Mark Cuban can totally wheelie a bike and grind a rail on a skateboard.
This one time, he was skating and I saw him do a totally gnarly 360 off of some dude's face while the dude was all screaming like "NO WAY!" and then Mark Cuban landed in Bolivia and did an ollie right over these military drug guys with machine guns that were all shooting in the air so he jumped off the skateboard in mid-air and threw it at them and it hit all three of them at once so they were like "WHOA!" and then they got knocked out so Mark Cuban (who was still in the air) landed on a BMX bike and did a vicious wheelie, then some other dude handed him a Flying V and he started playing Cat Scratch Fever while he was totally riding with no hands and some girls in bikinis were all like "YOU ARE HOT" and he was all like "I KNOW" and then he drank a Mountain Dew really fast and then did a thumbs-up.
Re:Wait... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Only a moron would buy YouTube (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Open up a Western Front (Score:5, Funny)
Next, Brin and Cuban agree that all copyright issues will be settled by best-of-7 tournaments between their respective teams. This proves to be too time consuming, so they expedite the process by substituting one-on-one NBA Live 07 matches using virtual versions of their respective teams.
The first match goes poorly, with Cuban accusing Brin of redirecting 90% of Google's computers to run a "hoop-bot" to improve his team's shooting accuracy. To ensure fairness, future matches are broadcast live on G4 TV. This proves to be an instant hit, capturing 100% attention from both of G4's viewers. A year later, Electronic Arts introduces "Madden Meta-NBA 08", where players control either a virtual Brin or virtual Cuban playing simulated NBA Live matches, available exclusively on the new SonySoft XStation720.
The game becomes an instant hit, and six months later Hollywood commissions a movie of the game of the company owners playing sports games of teams fighting for ...errr... for something or other, frankly we've forgotten by now. Probably a woman. Or a cat. Maybe an orphanage. Screw it, we'll go with an orphan cat-woman. Uwe Bolle will direct.
Re:*Tsk Tsk* Have we learned nothing? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Only a moron would buy YouTube (Score:4, Funny)
Never! (Score:4, Funny)
Stick THAT in your cigar and smoke it.
Re:Mark Cuban (Score:3, Funny)
You're tired of stereotypes, so you trot out the old "mom's basement" expression?
And what the fuck does "go-getter" mean?
Better get those TPS reports on my desk PDQ, or I'm going to proactively synergize my boot up your ass.