Well that didn’t take long did it. According to the Wall Street Journal:
“Over the weekend, News Corp. executives expressed their displeasure with the deal to Google and threatened to remove any links to YouTube videos placed by users on their MySpace blog pages, according to a person close to the situation.
Google’s Mr. Schmidt and Advertising Sales Vice President Tim Armstrong are scheduled to meet this week in Los Angeles with News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch, President Peter Chernin and Ross Levinsohn, head of its Fox Interactive Media online unit, to discuss the matter.”
I’d like to link to the full article but you need a subscription to read it all. Does this really come as a surprize to anyone. It shouldn’t and that’s not just because I alluded to it in my last post. Myspace has tried to block Youtube twice in the past (only to revert the decision due to user outrage), Google purchasing Youtube just gives myspace all that much reason to shut off the spigot for good. In fact if I can borrow the words of News Corp COO, “If you look at virtually any Web 2.0 application, whether its YouTube, whether it’s Flickr, whether it’s Photobucket…almost all of them are really driven off the back of MySpace, there’s no reason why we can’t build a parallel business.””
The 900 million reasons Google gave to News Corp to be friends August no longer appear to be enough. The world has changed, this should be good.
*Grabs lawnchair*
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