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What? That's exactly how the internet worked before YouTube. YouTube became the standard because you could easily upload things for free since the content was n
by dpkonofa 7y ago
What? That's exactly how the internet worked before YouTube. YouTube became the standard because you could easily upload things for free since the content was no longer the product. YouTube is only free because they can sell the data surrounding the videos to advertisers. Without that, we'd have exactly the situation that I'm describing because that's exactly the situation that we did have before YouTube came around (and that YouTube helped before it became beholden to companies rather than creators).
- philwelch 7y ago> What? That's exactly how the internet worked before YouTube. Yeah--there weren't very many videos because most web hosting services didn't let you consume that much hard drive space.
- dpkonofa 7y agoI don't think that HD space was the limiting factor. We'd still have gotten to the point of unlimited storage space like we have now.