Taking the 'ew' out of 'Andrew'

Once the networks succeeded in getting their content pulled, they promised to launch a “YouTube killer.” That turned out be an empty and inexact threat. YouTube didn’t really need the “real” shows and movies to sustain itself. It soon developed its own freaky internal chemistry. (At this point, it’s probably best to think of YouTube as a genre unto itself.) What we the people and the networks really wanted was a YouTube Pro—a site that would aggregate television shows and movies in one place and stream them in high-quality video.