MSN Soapbox has reopened to public. Microsoft’s video sharing site which recently slipped back into private beta inorder to implement digital fingerprinting technology is finally back.
Soapbox is now using the digital fingerprinting technology from Audible Magic, which will help them weed out copyright infringed videos and immunizes them from high profile lawsuit, which is being faced by rival YouTube.
This is certainly a step in the right direction as far as copyrighted content is concerned, but I’m not sure whether the community will like it. As far as I’ve read, YouTube’s initial success was due to these copyright infringed videos, but now it has turned out to be evil for YouTube. What do you folks think about Soapbox? With YouTube being the king of the hill, do you really think there is enough room for Soapbox?
Via Mashable!, Download Squad
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wrote, on June 6th, 2007
It all comes down to content at the end of the day. If enough good content is put up on Soapbox and linked on enough good blogs, I guess people will give it a fair chance.
Still, it is going to be a huge uphill struggle to take on YouTube’s popularity. If it was that easy, Google would have tried to market Google Video rather than buying YouTube.
wrote, on June 7th, 2007
Yes there is. Not only for SoapBox but also for Metacafe.
BTW - Anyone aware Wordpress plugin for embedding Soapbox content in page?
wrote, on June 8th, 2007
Microsoft will never be able to surpass Google video or YouTube. They are horrible in competing with Google AdSense and AdWords. I think they should just stick with trying to improve their OS.