YouTube Crackpot: Domain or STFU
Herbert Elwood Gilliland III claims he gave YouTube founder Chad Hurley the original idea for the video-sharing site. Now, two years after Google bought YouTube for $1.65 billion, he demands a million dollars in compensation.
What a crackpot. If he really thought up YouTube, then he should have registered the domain YouTube.com. If you don’t believe in an idea enough to spend a lousy ten bucks on it, then you deserve no credit for it. You certainly don’t deserve a million dollars for it.
I have three words for this guy: domain or STFU.
(Via Michael Arrington.)
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If you really did come up with with the idea of youtube, then I’m sure you can make another idea just as sucessful. You should’nt live thinking about what did or didn’t happen, think what great thing you can do next.
Nick; my response to you is that you shouldn’t want to live in a society that fails to provide a fair place to do business. You shouldn’t want to take part in the world of celebrity, where one person benefits while millions of others suffer. Whatever excuses you might have, our society is primitive and obviously our methods of doing business are not designed properly.