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The Blues Historian will not be published tomorrow due to a big gig out of town, but will resume Sunday. BTW, our archive is huge, so take a look at some older posts, and videos. There are some great things lurking in there. BTW, I hope that the big corporations who are tying to take apart Youtube realize that they are killing the goose that laid the golden egg. First, Youtube is a big corporation itself, so I suppose in a round about way it is interesting to watch to big Goliaths go at each other. However, what will happen when Youtube is out of business?? Simple sites outside the US will pop up. already daily motion has a ton of music clips and is located outside the US. Of course, the next step the big companies will take is what they have done with music sharing. They will then selectively start going after people who download the files. It will get ugly. What the big companies don't understand is that they can use Youtube for marketing. Most people are not interested in siting in front of their computers watching a full length movie from Youtube. the majority of clips on youtube are under five minutes. People are more likely to buy the full movie if it is available. I do know that some of the file sharing sites have full length movies on them. So Viacom, NBC, and others should go after them. Youtube is small potatoes compared to rapidshare, kazaa, and many others. Youtube has the high traffic, and has the money. Viacom, NBC, and the rest are licking their chops thinking about how they are going to slice this pie up. I suppose that an out of court settlement is in the works. Youtube stays in business and the big corps get a handsome paycheck. Stay tuned.