Yeah, that's a ton of money. I wonder how you value something like that, I find it hard to believe that Sony will be seeing a solid return on their money.

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According to Tech Crunch they were buying a lot more than just the youtube clone portion of grouper. Evidently they also have a P2P product.

Corporate mergers - their logic or lack thereof - are both mysterious and unfathomable.

And often completely screwed up... ah, the go-go late 90's... and the similar phenomena from seemingly every other previous decade for that matter....