Earlier today, the Washington post announced:  YouTube Inc. struck deals with CBS and two major music labels Monday as the popular video-sharing Web site races to befriend content providers and avoid copyright-infringement lawsuits.

The separate agreements with CBS, Vivendi’s Universal Music Group and Sony BMG Music Entertainment come less than a month after YouTube reached a deal with Warner Music Group Corp. On Friday, Google Inc. was reported to be in talks to acquire the video site for $1.6 billion.

Now we hear it’s a done deal.

While I love Google, it pretty much freaks me out to have one company (as anti-evil as they may claim to be) in so much control of what we think, see, read and hear.