I think this is new: you can now download songs from YouTube via a link to iTunes. This could well be the way that YouTube finally makes money. Like many others, I use YouTube mainly to listen to music, and having no desire to steal music, will be using this feature often. There are dozens of songs on my YouTube favourites list alone that I can now download from iTunes, so that's maybe £50 of revenues from me right there. Well...assuming the iTunes link is available for all videos, which is far from being the case. Still, a first step in an excellent direction.
As an interesting aside, the implied weakness in iTunes is discoverability, meaning that Google has again proven its strength at search, and its weakness at monetisation.
On a more tactical note, YouTube should allow users to listen to videos without watching them, saving itself a lot of bandwidth costs.
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