YouTube to host every music video ever created?

[cKGunslinger]

Seems like quite the stretch to me:

BBC Link

YouTube co-founder Steve Chen told Reuters news agency it was hoped that within 18 months the site would "have every music video ever created".

The company said it planned to offer the videos free of charge.

YouTube hosts homemade videos, but pirated commercial clips can be found. It claims 60% of videos watched online in the US are viewed on YouTube.

The site plans to allow users to add the music videos to their own profiles and post reviews.

"Right now we're trying to very quickly determine how and what the model is to distribute this content and we're very aggressive in assisting the labels in trying to get the content on to YouTube," said Mr Chen.


Unauthorised videos

Warner Music Group and EMI confirmed to Reuters that they had been in discussions about the plan.

Earlier this year, YouTube agreed a deal with US broadcaster NBC to promote its autumn schedule on the website.

The broadcaster had previously had to ask YouTube to remove unauthorised footage of its shows posted by users.

The site was named one of Time magazine's 50 "coolest websites" of the year on Tuesday.

On the day of the announcement it suffered an unplanned breakdown lasting about six hours.

The outage was due to "database-related issue", YouTube spokeswoman Julie Supan said.

It's kinda funny, because in the thread talking about MTV's birthday, I suggested that no one uses TV to watch video, we all had the internet.

 

[Specop 007]

They better rename it to bandwidth tube if they want to host every single music video ever.

 

[Willy Duet]

Here's about 1400 of them:

80's videos

 

[eplebnista]

Originally posted by: Willy Duet
Here's about 1400 of them:

80's videos

They've got: Y Kant Tori Read - The Big Picture :thumbsup:

 

[BobDaMenkey]

That's pretty damned ambitious. I like YouTube, but get bored with browsig it pretty quickly.

 

[Mermaidman]

Originally posted by: Willy Duet
Here's about 1400 of them:

80's videos

Here's one for Dirk Nowitzki
David Hasselhoff

 

[Jeff7]

All compressed down to about 50kbps at glorious 160x120 resolution too, right? All with sound that makes a germanium diode AM radio sound good.

 

[Ameesh]

you touch my tralala

 

[ballmode]

score

 

[rocadelpunk]

i'd just watch da da da over and over and over

 

[pulse8]

I seriously doubt they will get EVERY music video ever made. I think it's just one of those statements that they can make now, but not have to back up later on.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: Willy Duet
Here's about 1400 of them:

80's videos

Los Lobos - La Bamba



Steve Miller Band - Abracadabra




Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight

 

[Goosemaster]

Roy Orbison - You Got It

 

[BeauJangles]

Originally posted by: Jeff7
All compressed down to about 50kbps at glorious 160x120 resolution too, right? All with sound that makes a germanium diode AM radio sound good.

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