The problem with bandwidth is that its cure is largely political. Legislations and agreements that prevent competition, community run ISPs... Help YouTube. On

The problem with bandwidth is that its cure is largely political. Legislations and agreements that prevent competition, community run ISPs... Help YouTube. On more thought, bandwidth isn't the major politically caused road block. It's copyright laws. Facebook and Microsoft are both capable of building YouTube clones. But Microsoft has limited itself to cooperate video hosting. And I believe Facebook has intentionally bad video discovery mechanism to keep copyright sharks at bay. Porn hosting is pretty much triving in part because copyright laws / enforcement is weak there. YouTube started aggressive, automated takedowns because of copyright laws. Fix the laws and the tech will take care of the rest.