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Blender is a 3D model tool and they have a lot of free video content showing users how to use the software. YouTube wanted to monetize the content but Blender r

• larkeith 8y ago
  To be specific: YouTube blocked all of Blender's videos, globally, and only restored them after Blender published a blog post on it and moved to PeerTube.
  • fapjacks 8y ago
    ... While also silently pushing their "service agreement" across the table. That agreement explicitly enables ads from which Google takes 45% of the revenue. [0] [0] http://download.blender.org/institute/Contract%20between%20Google%20and%20Blender%20Foundation.pdf http://download.blender.org/institute/Contract%20between%20G...
    • jonknee 8y ago
      Google takes 45% of the revenue that they go out and get for you while they cover 100% of all expenses... Not the worst deal I've heard of. Seems like a better deal than app stores that take 30% of the revenue that you go out and get yourself.
      • fapjacks 8y ago
        ... Is this reply for real? This is absurd and disingenuous. Google is one of those 30% app stores. Google/Youtube also absolutely does not cover 100% of the expenses and certainly doesn't "go out and get for you" the revenue. Google/Youtube doesn't pay anybody shit for creating the content that populates their network. Google should be on its knees thanking these content creators, not clubbing the altruistic creators of free software over the head with their insidious racket. This must be what it's like talking to Apple fanboys about paying double for overpriced garbage hardware.