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Youtube does have a big advantage of video being too large to move around quickly. It would take quite some time to bootstrap a new video service with even a re
by yoz-y 9y ago
Youtube does have a big advantage of video being too large to move around quickly. It would take quite some time to bootstrap a new video service with even a remotely comparable catalog.
- John_KZ 9y agoNot to mention 10 years worth of archived videos that will be lost (and are currently lost due to censoring and de-ranking). Youtube at this point is like the Library of Alexandria, but they just decided to burn down half the books and replace the index with a list of their favorite ones. You can read books for free, but they inject advertisements between paragraphs.
- MaxBarraclough 9y ago> It would take quite some time to bootstrap a new video service with even a remotely comparable catalog. That's true, but it's a question of adoption - it has nothing to do with file size. Vimeo are a rival streaming service, and they're very good, but they don't offer YouTube-style monetization.