YouTube: The Big Copyright Lie  —  I’m a big YouTube fan.  —  We can thank YouTube for cutting the gordian knot of video codecs.  Instead of futzing around with codecs and media players, YouTube’s universal, Flash-based web video “just works”.  After all this time, it turns out the killer app …

Source:   Coding Horror

Author:   Jeff Atwood

Link:   http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000972.html