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Comment by deftnerd | Hacker News Reader

I'm not a Justin.tv user, but it frustrates me when organizations make big decisions like this without much time for their users to react. I can only assume that they're bleeding money and they're trying to quickly cut their operating costs.

Someone should contact the Archive.org and see if they can get copies of all the public archives of these videos.

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Justin.tv owns Twitch, which is recently rumored to be in acquisition talks with Youtube for $1bil. I don't think they're bleeding money at this point.

Bleeding money and being in acquisition talks are not mutually exclusive.

Maybe not, but it's bad strategy to give away that you're bleeding money while in acquisition talks.

As long as you don't end up like HP and Autonomy:

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/may/07/shareholders...

Oops. Yes, you're right - you almost certainly have to disclose it at some point. Don't take legal advice from me...

But... maybe having a huge archive of user videos and being owned by YouTube might be mutually exclusive.

Perhaps they want to make this change before the acquisition to spare Google the bad press of "shutting down yet another service".

Yeah, 8 days notice isn't much though at least it's better than Yahoo's shutting down Everyblock with no notice at all. I see Everyblock is back under new ownership but I'm not sure they've got the old data.

IIRC, it's NBC who shut Everyblock down.

It was: http://www.holovaty.com/writing/rip-everyblock/

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