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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Look this is different than pirating a game or bypassing a newspaper paywall. Watching content on YouTube simply costs money to YouTube. It's not like torrenting a game or movie, where while you haven't paid for the content, it didn't cost anything to the owner other than theoretical revenue. And it's not like bypassing a newspaper paywall, either, where the cost to the newspaper to serve you the story is practically negligible and the real costs are fixed and not related to how many people actually read the story.

Hosting video costs money and nobody can replace YouTube's massive library or realistically replicate their business model. I mean just look at image/gif hosting sites, they constantly go bust like Photobucket because storing everyone's pictures forever and for free isn't not a real business model.

YouTube needs to be paid for its gonna go the way of Photobucket.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Let it die. Creators will go elsewhere. We need to shake up the ancien regime a bit

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Go where? The only companies that can afford to do unlimited video forever for everyone are the likes of Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, etc. Meta tried to steal VOD watchers from YouTube years ago, they failed. Amazon tried to get into VOD via Twitch, they gave up. Microsoft tried to come after Twitch with Mixer, they failed. Moreover, a lot of the things we hate about youtube like poor content moderation, the copyright system, demonetization, etc arent youtubes fault. The broken copyright system is just a result of what copyright law is, it'd probably be worse on a different site since they wouldn't have the special agreement YouTube has with major copyright holders to serve as an intermediary. Instead of content strikes, or an ad revenue claim, that youtube has the special power to do, you'd just default to DMCA takedowns for everything immediately. And yeah content moderation and demonetization is bad but Youtube never wanted to do this right? They were happily showing ads on ISIS videos, its advertisers that forced them, which is how we ended up with a system that randomly pulls ads from videos if there is a hint of something an ad agency would object too. I mean it's either this or advertisers don't advertise at all, which fucks everyone, instead of a few people.

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

And are you going to pay to host the petabytes of 4K content? Or are you going to expect other people to pay that when these creators jump ship?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Even if I have to sit through 30 seconds of silence, is there a way to redirect the ad to a ghost browser so I don't have to listen to something like grubhubs stupid video?

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This is only the 3764th post this week..

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And I will gladly read 3,764 posts more.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

To be the man who read 7,528 posts to fall down at your door

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

ITT: People upset that free things don't last forever.

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