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What's your complaint about youtube? They host exabytes of video and make it freely available worldwide. There is no better resource for video creators.

• danharaj 11y ago
  Youtube decides what content is permissible by being one of the large gatekeepers for distribution. They also are a large lever for large copyright holders to push on to hurt small content creators who have less recourse for action (DMCA and whatnot). Youtube is ultimately private property. It is not a commons. That's my complaint. The whole Internet is a commons but there's no commonly shared infrastructure on the scale of youtube for content distribution and relating content to other content and to communities of people, unless you count search engines as that infrastructure.
  • 9872 11y ago
    That's why it exists. There can never be a commons. There can be large private sites or small ones. Large ones like youtube are more useful.
    • danharaj 11y ago
      > There can never be a commons. Why not?
      • 9872 11y ago
        Because there isn't one now and there's no reason for one to ever come into being.
• SomeStupidPoint 11y ago
  Their content policing borders on conspiracy to commit commercial copyright infringement, and goes considerably past what is required by law.
  • 9872 11y ago
    In other words, they only host content they feel comfortable redistributing?