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I think it will make YouTube much smaller - if a channel has been abandoned then content is also gone. Too bad, I like to see lectures and documentaries, or som

I think it will make YouTube much smaller - if a channel has been abandoned then content is also gone. Too bad, I like to see lectures and documentaries, or some old and forgotten music, so all this will also go ... Maybe they want all the rarely viewed videos gone so that they can cut on storage costs? Also if you ripped and posted some old disk then you are not holding any rights so this content is also gone.

russelldc 11y ago
This only applies to YouTube partners, not any creator.
mattlutze 11y ago
At least a few years ago, thinner media catalog with deeper viewership ends up being better financially. Some friends and I looked at what it'd take to put up a competing service and there's a lot of cost in all the CDN traffic, when a video gets dropped off from a regional distribution node then has to be pulled again from storage. I'm sure YouTube don't need to worry about it so much, but a higher eyeball-per-MB means more ad revenue per MB and lower infrastructure costs, I think.