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YouTube's business model: 1. Get venture capital 2. Get popular by distributing copyrighted content on massive scale. 3. Don't remove copyrighted content whe
by gizmo 18y ago
YouTube's business model:
1. Get venture capital
2. Get popular by distributing copyrighted content on massive scale.
3. Don't remove copyrighted content when asked to by holder.
4. Get more venture capital
5. Attract attention from large copyright holders. Remove their content, but only by explicit request. Know that the same content will be uploaded the day after you remove it.
6. Keep growing by distributing copyrighted content.
7. Get bought for an insane amount by Google
8. Stay a seperate legal entity because uh... you know. The whole business model is shady.
Makes perfect sense to go after the users. After all, they don't have VC money to defend themselves with.
- jrockway 18y ago9. YouTube goes out of business. 10. People pirate TV clips somewhere else. 11. Wait, Google wasn't the problem here. Makes perfect sense to go after the users. After all, they don't have VC money to defend themselves with. Considering the FBI didn't get very far prosecuting people who viewed a (fake) child porn site, I doubt millions of people will be sued for perhaps viewing 10 minutes of a TV show. Especially since the TV show was being broadcast through everyone's brains anyway.