February 12, 2009

Paid Downloads are Coming to YouTube

youtube_logo_nov08.png YouTube's partners can now offer their videos for paid downloads. ReadWriteWeb reports.

quotemarksright.jpgWhile Google has always given its partners the option to offer downloads of their videos under the Creative Commons license, some of Google's partners will now also be able to charge for their videos.

YouTube is currently calling this a 'test,' and only a select sub-set of YouTube partners will be allowed to charge for downloads at first, but we assume that if this test is successful, Google will allow all of its partners to charge for downloads.quotesmarksleft.jpg


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