Google pockets TOO deep for suing
Just listening to yesterday’s Buzz Out Loud podcast from CNET and they made a very good point about the whole YouTube/Google lawsuit fear that I hadn’t previously thought of.
We all predicted that as soon as a company with deep pockets bought YouTube the lawsuits would come out. But maybe Google’s pockets are too deep. I, along with many others, believe that Google has enough F-U money to pitch at the content distributors to keep them off their backs until they can prove their business model works. I hadn’t thought about the fact that Google has so much money that they can afford to fight all of these guys in court for a long, long time. And no one has really stood up to them before so it’s possible that they could even beat them in court.
That’s a lot of assuming, but there’s enough of a possibility there that maybe these guys are worried about that too. Which would encourage them to sign with Google (for a hefty fee, of course) rather than try and fight Google.
