Wow, first a backlash over at Firefox and now a “user revolt” at YouTube. The interesting thing to consider here is the tension that is brewing between consumer web 2.0 services that are fundamentally rooted in user generated content and “the man” as represented by the post-napster venture community and other traditional industry segments. The fact is that a service like YouTube has to figure out how to make money and they can’t turn to porn like Guba else they become untouchable for venture investors. But in the end the real issue facing these services is probably rooted in the difficulty of controlling a service that relies on user generated content and the fickleness of those communities that create that content.

We Say: We agree. User managed and driven content is difficult to control. Try TinyPic for a look at another service, and hopefully YouTube will get its technology and policies in order and not blow this one. They had me at You. However, they also had a lot of problems with user-posted illegal material and no real way to make money, so this also could be good-bye. Or good-by.