When YouTube founder Chad Hurley discussed paying users for content last week, the future of Web entertainment suddenly seemed to hinge on two questions: Which sites will pay you? And how much?
Viacom and Google--through their squabble with YouTube over how big the piece of the pie will be--has lost perspective of the fan in the process, the whole force driving the power of both entities
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