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or maybe this levels the playing field so smaller companies can compete

• zamadatix 8y ago
  If YouTube can't make the margins I don't see how it could level the playing field for smaller companies to compete.
  • stirlo 8y ago
    With a better product? Imagine if you got rid of the whole user generated poor quality content and toxic comments section and simply uploaded a few hundred human reviewed best of the best videos per day. I don't see why we need 400 hours of video uploaded every minute when the vast majority of revenue and views is comings from a handful of videos.
    • icebraining 8y ago
      I don't see why we need 400 hours of video uploaded every minute when the vast majority of revenue and views is comings from a handful of videos. What a depressing statement. So there's no value in having a diversity of choice, points of view, taste, etc? Or in allowing anyone to share what they've made, without gatekeepers? Do you only listen to the top handful of musicians, or read the top handful of books? Hell, HN is not in the top handful of sites with the vast majority of revenue and views, does that mean it has no value? I'd say it's actually the only value it has; it's what distinguishes it from TV, which is otherwise a better system in other ways.
    • tcd 8y ago
      > the vast majority of revenue and views is comings from a handful of videos. Every channel started with 0 subscribers once and were part of that "400 hours of video uploaded every minute".
• beefeater 8y ago
  Congrats on the dumbest comment of the day. Youtube's copyright filtering is going to be better than any competitor just because of the sheer amount of resources they can sink into it. Assuming any video hosting company can survive this legislation, this will do the exact opposite of leveling the playing field. It will turn what is currently a fairly level playing field into one that massively favors Youtube.