Gizmoojo!

I always thought that Google’s acquisition of Youtube was not really well thought out by the hands in charge. One big thing that they had neglected is the potential amount of lawsuits that they see coming. I believe they underestimated this fact this alot. Over at Mashable, Pete posted that “Google talks in frantic mode and paying huge amount of money to Media company for Youtube“. That is just the beginning of this nightmare for Google.

Then we have others who are hungry and just wants a piece of the pie for themselves. The German soccer team Bayern Munich threatened to sue over YouTube’s use of fan footage, and today the press wires are reporting that the English Premier League is also unhappy. And then there is Utube, the tubing company that operates a corporate site at utube.com sueing Google for expenses incur because of the amount of traffic they got from visitors who were looking for youtube.com but ended up at utube.com.

So as I have pointed out, this is only the beginning. And here’s why, if ever any of these lawsuits would go in favor against Google, look for others to immediately jump onto the bandwagon. I bet you that there are probably hundreds of other companies just lurking in the background and if ever Google lose a single one of the cases against them. We’ll see more lawsuits coming their way.

So say now, I put some video of gadget and gizmos reviews on Gizmoojo.com and if someone (or even worse, I had someone) post videos of these reviews onto Youtube. That in theory is an infringement of my copyrights. So my claim against Google/Youtube would easily be as valid as the rest since Youtube hosted my video and thus causing the loss of advertising revenue/traffic that Gizmoojo could “potentially be losing”. So, yes, Google made a bad decision for acquiring Youtube, and they’re in for a  hell of a ride.