Lots of news recently on renewed talks among BigMedia about creating a captive competitor to YouTube. Rafat seems to have his hand on the pulse of whatever is going on, which seems to be changing from minute to minute. This development has seemed decidedly Keystone-ish from Day 1, and while the concept itself has been obvious from the outset, surely its wobbly execution points to the biggest problem with the concept; a venture born of the need to control cannot possibly survive having multiple owners. Update: Rumours confirmed.
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Any new site that infects content or the receiving devices with DRM can’t possibly compete with any site that is DRM-free. Everything I have read suggests that this new site will be DRM-infected content. As someone who believe in protecting my property rights, which includes the right to make my own software choices on the hardware I own, I do not access DRM-infected content without circumventing the DRM. DRM has two parts: content encoded to only interoperate with specific brands of devices (the very thing many European countries are legitimately investigating Apple over anti-trust issues), and devices that are locked down to circumvent the property rights of device owners (the reason I do not use DRM-infected hardware).