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MP3.com founder takes on MySpace, YouTube
Created: 07/26/2006
Video description: At the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit, MP3.com founder and MP3Tunes CEO Michael Robertson predicted the addition of ads to YouTube and referred to popular social-networking site MySpace as a "technological nightmare." YouTube CEO Chad Hurley says that although his site is going through revisions, it will remain a site for the people by the people.

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