Mark Cuban Declares War on GooTube

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."

Cuban seems like what most /.ers want to be

[paladinwannabe2]

According to Wikipedia, Mark Cuban [wikipedia.org] was a software salesman who became rich through selling his company. He's a libertarian and objectivist. He's not a moron, and certainly not a suit. I may disagree with his attack on Google here, but that doesn't mean I think he's stupid.

Crazy, and wrong

[Per Abrahamsen]

The DMCA is supposed to mean that YouTube and Google are not responsible for what their users upload, but are obliged to remove all copyrighted material when requested to do so by the copyright holders.

This is one thing the DMCA got right, without such a protection of service providers, it would be impossible to run a site like /. where anyone can upload copyrighted material.

Re:Only a moron would buy YouTube

[Anonymous Coward]

Zoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom.... ..........

That would be the sound of the joke going over your head.

Re:Wait...

[EnderWigginsXenocide]

"according to the law, he's... uh... right."

YouTube requires agreement to their TOS when one posts a video. The poster is liable for the conents of the video. YouTube complies with takedown notices. So if you don't like something that goes onto YouTube and you have the legal rights to it, you ask YouTube to take it down, and it's gone. Who the hell needs to waste time and money on a lawsuit when single letter ("Get my stuff off your site, here are the URLS") will get your content off YouTube. Taking up a suit against a company that is so compliant with takedown requests is only a moneygrab or an act of malice ("Let's sue them into bankrupcy, I can afford more lawyer time then they can.")

Re:Wait...

[Achromatic1978]

What I like about the guy is that the NBA fines him $100,000+ every time he says something stupid and he keeps doing it. That's putting your money where your mouth is.

And, I believe, donates an equal amount to charity. I think he was even quoted as saying something along the lines of "Such and such charity hasn't been getting enough money from me since I lost my voice, so I've been catching up on badmouthing the refs"...