revenge of the freebie

THE BROWSER: YouTube sees user rebellion – May. 3, 2006 “A bitter Nathan Weinberg at InsideGoogle says that […]

THE BROWSER: YouTube sees user rebellion – May. 3, 2006

“A bitter Nathan Weinberg at InsideGoogle says that he was kicked off YouTube two months ago. Weinberg chronicles his dissatisfaction with the free (and reportedly money-losing) service, ultimately deciding that he has only one thing left to do: “Ruin YouTube” by systematically reporting all of the site’s traffic-generating but copyright-violating videos. Microsoft’s (Research) Don Dodge, who formerly worked at Napster (Research), adds a been there, done that post to the fray, noting sagely: “User-generated content is very difficult to manage and control.””

ya think?