Youtube is not an open platform, you don't get access to the dev tools or license to use the name unless you go through Google first.

It'd be like me naming my store Apple Computers!
I'd get my ass sued before I could have the sign installed. MS is selling their product using Googles property.

Yea I agree, Newegg does seem to have gone down of late.

They used to be great, and the shipping is still fast. But there are now cheaper alternatives with better customer support. If shit happens then you are basically fucked.

What's your point?

Basic Hulu and Basic Youtube have you watch ads in exchange for the content you want to see. Bandwidth and servers are not cheap.

Then you're a thief.

You agreed to watch the advertising on Youtube in exchange for the content being provided. If you block that then you are breaking your part of the agreement. You want to go someplace else, fine; but that does not entitle you to view the original content. If it was ripped and uploaded somewhere else, you're still a thief.

We're not talking about the MPAA here. They don't generally upload their stuff on Youtube for the pittance of adrevenue.

People like The Angry Videogame Nerd , TotalBuscuit, Yogscast, Northenlion, they are the ones who will be affected. Why should they continue to make content for you to watch, if you're not going to watch the ads which is how they support themselves? They'll just stop and you wont have any new content to watch from them.

Why should they?
MS is forbidden from allowing the local download of content.

You're ignoring that MS adding in a feature that is expressly forbidden under the terms that MS agreed to.

Bullshit.
You do not by any stretch of the imagination have the right to remove advertising.

Why do you think sites like Hulu actively block you from seeing their content if you are using an adblocker? Are you going to argue that Hulu is obligate to give away original content for free, without ads or subscription? That the creators should make and pay for the bandwidth and infrastructure just because you want it?

That's their entire business model, we give you content you want, and in exchange you view this ad we're paid to show.

And in the case of Google, that ad revenue is shared with the actual content creators. You are literally depriving uploaders of money by removing ads.

Except you know, being Google's service they have to cover the cost of streaming those video files. It's perfectly reasonable for them to have ads to help cover the cost.

Even if they did not have it, they still took the extra step to allow for locally downloading of video files, which is not allowed.

It's one thing to say you don't have the API to integrate ads; it's another to say you don't have the API but you also build in features that are expressly forbidden.

Exactly, it still costs Google to stream those videos, they have a right to have advertising and do not allow for them to be locally downloaded. MS violated the agreement.

Not quite, it takes extra work to add features such as being able to locally download the videos.

Only way to stop them is to lock them up or disbar them.
After the last defeat, it was pretty obvious nothing would change so long as they were allowed to practice law. They just made a new firm and voila, same old tricks.

You actually can buy flower wit ground up meal-worms currently.

I remember they revoked my W7 serial one day out of the blue.

Had been using it for like two years with no prob, then one day it tells me I need to activate it. Kinda odd seeing as I bought it direct from MS via their online store. After a phone call they issued me a new serial.

Don't forget they have already said they want to release a new Star Wars movie every year. Got a feeling it'll be the Call of Duty for movies.