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Except the biggest Bittorrent tracker one, and a few other finished projects.



Their projects only succeed if they use illegal content to push them.

This was also the reason youtube succeeded and right now they are only selling ads for about 4% of all content, because for the rest of the content, the original post doesn't own the copyright.

(only have german source http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Zeitung-Google-von-YouTube-We...)


Yeah it definitely didn't workout for the YouTube founders. Better luck next time I guess.


It is not 'illegal content'.




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