I was listening to Mark Evan's Talking Tech podcast today. Mark was speaking with Seabord Group analyst Kevin Restivo about how copyright is going to affect video services like You Tube.
Of particular interest to me was Microsoft's Soap Box video sharing service. Taking a page out of Google's book, Soap Box is in an invitation only beta at the moment. I make it a point to only sign up for stuff that I'm really interested in and while that precludes almost everything Microsoft has ever made, I'm curious what the angle is.
I think that the writing is on the wall for You Tube and it will become the next entry in the "good idea, bad legal foundation" book right next to Napster. It doesn't make sense to me that Microsoft would enter a space that has so much negative heat around it right now, so I'm willing to bet that MS is going to do it differently.
