As users blog the new year, YouTube fails to follow-through on its own resolution.
January 2, 2007
By Alexandra Berzon
During the countdown to the new year, YouTube video blogger “Rebzugo”—a young, anonymous girl—stared intently at a camera hooked up to her computer and recapped an eventful ’06. Highlights included wearing a watch for the first time and discovering the user-generated video posting website.
“In 2006, many, many interesting things happened to me, very few of which made national headlines,” said Rebzugo, an apparent self-deprecator.
The same could not be said for YouTube. But the year that had been generally so kind to the start-up sensation—what with the $1.65 billion Google purchase—went out on a bit of a sour note. YouTube may be late with a first of its own, a system that would allow media companies to identify copyrighted work on the site and automatically remove the content or recoup royalties.
That could throw a kink into some of the big deals YouTube made with media companies this fall.
