Comments on: YouTube cuts three content deals

Universal, Sony BMG and CBS have joined Warner in offering the legal use of their content for YouTube videos.

[Peter Bonte]

Businessmodel

Oh, that is one freaking genius businessmodel, simply unique.

[i_made_this]

I'd lower my bid if I were Google...

...or at least hold firm at one six for another 72 hours. Put up or shut up time for YouTube. Google doesn't need them because their own GoogleVideo already rocks heads and tails over YouTube on quality, but at one six they're willing to dip into petty cash and throw YouTube a bone to vacuum up YouTube's existing membership. If I were counselling YouTube, I'd tell em beggars can't be chosers and to take GOOG's money - and quickly so - and say "thank you, Google."

[tania3000]

What's the content of THIS? ...

... place, that odd military facility in China recently found using Google Earth:

Articles with pictures:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/19/huangyangtan_mystery/
http://www.smh.com.au/news/web/the-riddle-of-chinas-area-51/2006/08/14/1155407679963.html

Google Earth forum post:
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Cat/0/Number/484568

That's the place in the middle of the desert where the Chinese Army has constructed a scale-model replica of the entire region of Aksai Chin (occupied by China since the 1962 war with India). At 1:500, it's still 700 by 900 meters big ( = several football fields). Next to it is a base with dozens of troop transporters seen coming and going. The duplicate shows everything: rivers, lakes, roads and snow-capped mountains. It's basically a landscape within a landscape.

The problem is that nobody has been able to figure out the function of this thing. The world's biggest miniature golf course, perhaps? China's own Area 51? That's why it's the subject of so much discussion in the blogosphere. The discoverer even had to set up his own blog to handle the buzz: foundinchina.blogspot.com

Any ideas?