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You could do everything YouTube does, but better, and still have a hard time of it because content creators audiences are still on YouTube
by VectorLock 7y ago
You could do everything YouTube does, but better, and still have a hard time of it because content creators audiences are still on YouTube
- gvx 7y agoThere's also the high barrier to entry due to bandwidth and storage: you're not going to be able to compete with YouTube if you don't offer at least 1080p streaming which means you have to have a pretty hefty infrastructure in place before you can launch. And then the legal issues: as a scrappy new website, you're unlikely to be able to protect your users from large copyright holders, which in practice means new YouTube competitors will be even more quick to take down fair use videos than YouTube to prevent being sued out of existence. I've been thinking about building something like that for a long time, but I just don't see how it would be feasible in the current copyright system. The only solution I see would be sites like Dropout or Nebula(? not too familiar with it), where the platform is effectively the same as the content creator. This of course is inaccessible to the vast majority of smaller creators.