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The fact that youtube wants people to come back to the site and use servers, miles of wires, electricity, network machinery instead of letting them download vid
by intricatedetail 6y ago
The fact that youtube wants people to come back to the site and use servers, miles of wires, electricity, network machinery instead of letting them download videos so they can watch them from thumbdrive just says to me this company is unethical and harms environment. Any business model that forces people to be on the network without any reason other than greed, should be illegal. If you can stream the file, download option should be mandatory by law.
- stormbeard 6y agoPeople forget that Youtube is a _business_. The reason they maintain all of those servers and network machinery is to serve ads, otherwise why would they provide that service for free?
- intricatedetail 6y agoNo. But they shouldn't harm environment. If business is harmful then should be illegal.
- siegfried-en 6y agoWell that's a pretty simplistic view.
- justinclift 6y agoThat doesn't mean there isn't some truth to it. ;)
- mcrad 6y agoHow is it possible to legislate electricity caps on google, according to some imagined threshold of "harm to environment"? Sounds like the number of lawyers involved would be the real harm in this scenario.
- intricatedetail 6y agoCompany will have to justify what is their business need for particular use of electricity.
- rbecker 6y agoOnce you download a video, you don't need their service anymore to watch it again. But they want you to remain dependent on them.
- mcrad 6y agoAll businesses run on financial incentives (or what you call 'greed'). How is it possible that profit motive and associated laws that facilitate buying/selling be written off as unethical?