Ah but Youtube clips have a piece of embedded hypertext that makes it easier to repost them on Myspace and elsewhere (like blogs).
And it isn’t just a url, the entire flash video can be viewed on this other page.
Millions of Myspace users embed the images. You may even abstain from the practice but “host” violating videos. All it takes is someone to post a youtube clip to your comments and “you” host it.
I think they are looking for the widest pool of users possible, not just Google’s Youtube.
It must really get Viacom’s goat that they were offered Myspace and turned it down because they didn’t see any way to make money with it. Newscorp ended up buying it. There is advertising all over the site now and the minimum age of users was dropped from 18+ to 13 or 14 I think.
Yep. It’ll load up in a browser like any linked remote image file would. But that does not change the true “host”.
“There is advertising all over the site now....”
Aside from a few ads on the splash page, there ain’t much. The individual pages containing the actual clips have none.
“Meanwhile, Viacom also asked for information on Google’s advertising tactics across all its properties – not just YouTube. Viacom wanted to find out how much YouTube might be benefiting financially from ads displayed on copyrighted content, but since Google already agreed to give up a small amount of advertising data as it relates to YouTube, the judge denied the request.”
You’re right. Had the judge allowed it, Viacom would not have stopped at YouTube.