Inside Music MediaJerry Del Colliano

Google, a new age company -- the rage, the do-no-wrong new media conglomerate had to go outside Google's significant brain trust to buy YouTube from a couple of kids they then made into billionaires. Couldn't Google have invented YouTube on its own for a lot less? YouTube could only have been conceived of in a garage by a few fools who thought pirating other people's copyrights could be a big business. Imagine if Viacom had a skunk works and its brainstormers came up with YouTube first. How fast do you think corporate lawyers would have shot down that idea? In the music-related media we tend to blame new technology when sales go down&hellip