YouTube in Trouble?

Is YouTube about to go the way of Napster? The San Jose Mercury News reports that Universal Music Group is preparing a suit against YouTube, charging with copyright infrigement.

I think the media companies need to avoid overdoing it. YouTube isn't a threat to broadcast quality video (welll...at least not yet), but it does represent another outlet for published works, and one that takes advantage of social networking tools to create buzz.

Media companies ought to figure out how they can leverage sites such as YouTube rather than crush them.