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YouTube Gives MySpace, TV Networks A Thumpin'

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YouTube Gives MySpace TV Networks A Thumpin

It's been nothing but up for YouTube lately, a hill steep enough to send a few key competitors tumbling backwards. MySpace added a video component? Wouldn't know it by recent stats. Viacom copyright lawyers strip-searching everybody? So, what? Traffic's never been better.

According to Compete.com, YouTube controls a 43.3 share of the online video market in January, up from 41.1 percent in December. That translates to 31.7 million unique visitors, up two million in one month. Meanwhile, MySpace Video is down by nearly the same amounts.

Add Google Video's 10 percent market share and you have Google owning, again, over 50 percent of an Internet market. The top ten Web video sites are:

1. YouTube
2. MySpace
3. Google Video
4. AOL Video
5. MSN Video
6. StupidVideos
7. Yahoo Video
8. Break
9. eBaum's World
10. Daily Motion
It seems nothing, not even sweeping copyright concerns or Rupert Murdoch have been able to derail YouTube's success. Hitwise's
The next step then, is getting a grip on all this copyright hullabaloo. Maybe this new patent for "




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