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Perhaps YT should have a tiered paid account system - as a content creator you pay a small monthly fee (relative to the local country) to cover costs... say €1
by comprev 6y ago
Perhaps YT should have a tiered paid account system - as a content creator you pay a small monthly fee (relative to the local country) to cover costs... say €1 per month for 10hrs of content? As the channel grows in size (and ideally, viewings), the costs go up.
It would certainly reduce the amount of junk uploaded to the internet.
- izacus 6y agoYeah should be - but the costs would be in terms of 100s of EUR per month, not 1EUR. This is why none of those creators really go on their own - hosting video is EXPENSIVE. It's easier to demand YT to host the content for free.
- labawi 6y ago> costs would be in terms of 100s of EUR per month Personally, I don't consider it a valid point. It only costs so much to share some data because of massive centralization by the likes of Google and ISPs, and can only be sustained because of t sustained because these "subsidies" from large players. It's not technically hard to distribute some videos efficiently, but the market is less than 1/10000. Maybe in 5 years it will be near impossible to host a web site without being DDOS-ed, but I won't praise Cloudflare for their now-possibly-not-free service, I will blame them along side ISPs.
- izacus 6y agoshrug These were the prices before YouTube really became big and were still the prices after they became big. I've worked in video streamin industry in years and I haven't seen YouTube be the fault of the high costs. It mostly comes from the fact that videos are large, they need a lot of CPU power to convert and need a lot of bandwidth to transmit to clients.
- labawi 6y agoThere was a time when downloading movies took hours, or even days. Nowadays, you can stream via popcorn time for basically free¹. As for CPU, storage - I don't think 10+ different formats at extreme compression are a hard requirement. Youtube ads are good, as people will have incentive to use peertube and similar. ¹ You need some seeds, but they don't need Tbps pipes.
- ApolloFortyNine 6y ago>There was a time when downloading movies took hours, or even days. Nowadays, you can stream via popcorn time for basically free¹. And a willingness to steal...
- labawi 6y agoFor the record, argument was of declining distribution costs for content you presumably have the right to share, e.g. created yourself.
- mmastrac 6y agoCopyright infringement isn't theft.
- ApolloFortyNine 6y agoIllegal copying? Call it what you will, if you had paid for the Dark Knight, WB would get $5. Instead they get $0. It's illegal and if everyone did it, movies would not exist.
- dangisawhore 6y agoThat's the idea
- Dylan16807 6y agoIf everyone that would have paid pirates a movie then the movie industry collapses. If everyone that wouldn't have paid pirates a movie then nothing bad happens and people enjoy things. Arguing one of those facts while ignoring the other one is a mark of a bad argument.
- moogly 6y agoNo, the real reason they don't go on their own is because of the massive user base.
- Aunche 6y agoYoutubers take a 55% cut of ad revenue, which is about 1.8 cents per view. Youtube takes a 45% cut, but part of that is to subsidize the videos that currently don't have ads, so let's say 20% of current ad revenue is a reasonble price of Youtube removing ads from a single video. For a video viewed a million times, it would cost a creator $6545 (.018 x 20/55 x 1,000,000) to keep the video ad free. I can't imagine anyone willing to pay that much to keep their videos ad-free.