Saturday/Sunday - Frenzied dealmaking (something to do with appeasing big media interests whose copyright YouTube regularly infringes).
Monday - Google tells an excited media that the deal of the year has been done (Net historians will call it the Zenith of the Web 2.0 hubris, and the beginning of the second great dotcom crash).
Tuesday - A billion new users log into YouTube to see what all the fuss is about.
Wednesday - YouTube boss Chad Hurley rushes over to the Googleplex to beg for a $100m advance to buy a 'bit more bandwidth guys' while adding 'er...could we also borrow a couple of thousand of your networked PCs? Could we?'
Thursday - World breathes a sigh of relief as the people's TV is kept online after some very nifty cable switching. China bans YouTube, followed by Iran, Saudia Arabia and The London Borough of Brent (ban later rescinded after protest from the Socialist Workers Party).
(Editor's Note: OK, this isn't strictly a mobile story but seeing as YouTube is the repository for many current and possibly future UK Mobile Report videos we are more than a little concerned.)
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