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Microsoft's Soapbox Headed For The Wastebin

It looks like Microsoft may be narrowing its focus in the field of video-sharing.  MSN Video will live on, but Soapbox is bound for the trashcan. Soapbox was often referred to as a YouTube clone with stricter views on copyright.  It was responsible for only a small percentage of Microsoft's overall video streams, and of course even that total doesn't compare favorably to the numbers posted by sites like YouTube, MySpace, and Hulu.