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Dailymotion, France's YouTube-botherer-in-chief, looks set to be bought by Vivendi after a Gallic government intervention. On Tuesday morning French media borg Vivendi confirmed it has made an offer for one of the world's biggest video-hosting websites, after news that Hong Kong-based telecoms company PCCW had pulled out of …

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  1. ratfox

    Interesting

    Vivendi is a big content provider; it's a bit as if Viacom bought YouTube.

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  2. heyrick Silver badge

    Oh look. The French government doing Vivendi a favour.

    La plus ça change, la plus the même merde.

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      @heyrick

      "Oh look. The French government doing Vivendi a favour."

      No doubt by using some redirected EU subsidy or other, as well.

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  3. Mike Smith

    Peut-être, mais c'est mieux que de laisser les Américains l'acheter.

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  4. Buzzword

    DailyMotion: the place to go if the video you want has been blocked by YouTube.

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  5. Phuq Witt

    Sacred Blue!

    "...France is famously protective of its cultural heritage..."

    In this case presumably "les vidéos des chats"

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  6. msknight

    Waste of French server space.

    I actually came off DailyMotion ... the amount of adverts they were putting on the videos meant I was getting complaints from my viewer base that the videos were unwatchable. No wonder they're being handed around if the content that people do put up, is plastered with thirty seconds of adverts every few minutes.

    Perhaps that's why ... as a rooster it certainly won't be laying any golden eggs at this rate.

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  7. John Smith 19 Gold badge
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    Quoi?

    Been a while since I checked DM.

    Must have something on it worth checking out.

    The fact they are not American should give them an advantage in some areas.

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  8. captain veg Silver badge

    ca me fait chier

    Have you had your daily motion?

    Have to admit that I didn't realise it was Orange. The same people that brought you Wanadoo-doo.

    -A.

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