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Is YouTube not a video-streaming company inside of Google?
by tareqak 7y ago
Is YouTube not a video-streaming company inside of Google?
- jrockway 7y agoYouTube doesn't require Widevine DRM.
- wmf 7y agoFrom a previous thread, YouTube movie rentals (that everybody forgot exists) do require DRM. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19554594 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19554594
- est31 7y agoInteresting. But if Google wanted to hurt browsers that don't have DRM they could put DRM onto every YouTube video "just because".
- harry8 7y agoand they will. You have to make sure the bait is taken before you do the switch or they all get a away.
- floatboth 7y agoCompanies do shit because it's profitable, not "just because". YouTube's business model is centered around ads. (There's also Premium, superchats, the new paid subscription mini-Patreon thing.. but it's still mostly ads.) If they needed more money, they would fight ad blockers harder, e.g. by fusing the ads and the video into one stream. But they aren't doing this. DRM is antithetical to the ad-supported model, because you want to spread content with ads as far as possible, make it as accessible as possible, to get more views and clicks. Restrictive crap gets in the way of that.