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
