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The author thought to replicate Youtube for a specific audience. First with his own content, that didn't work too well. Luckily enough, Youtube created an API to get specific content.

So now the author had the same business model as Youtube, except aimed at a specific part of their audience, and he was using their content, not paying them a dime, and wants to make money off it.

The story makes perfect sense. For Google.

What does a stupid parent trying to adopt a puppy have to do with parking kids in front of a computer screen?

Like the story you linked to said, leaving a dog alone with a three year old is dangerous. There is no real danger in looking at videos with your kid (or letting them watch it themseles).

Alky Postmortem 17 years ago

I wonder what the reasoning was behind closing down the open-source project the way he did.