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Wasn't this the path of YouTube also?
by nsoonhui 6y ago
Wasn't this the path of YouTube also?
- coopsmgoops 6y agoAnd Spotify?
- gazab 6y agoYup. You could sometimes find scene release group names in the metadata when Spotify beta launched. They cleaned it up in the "great purge" where 90% of my playlists became empty :)
- sneak 6y agoNow, these same sites that grew to prominence based on the efforts of pirates are now going to lengths to thwart them. Is there a better example of pulling the ladder up behind you than this? I can't think of one.
- treeman79 6y agoHollywood is in California because film makers didn’t want to pay royalties to Edison on cameras.
- Red_Leaves_Flyy 6y agoNimby property and development laws?
- VectorLock 6y agoThe founders of Spotify were involved with BitTorrent clients so it was a natural extension.
- verroq 6y agoYoutube’s owners didn’t upload copyrighted content to their own site with fansubs. It was all in: go legit or die in a lawsuit.
- dbt00 6y ago> Youtube’s owners didn’t upload copyrighted content to their own site This is, I believe, actually incorrect. (the bit about fansubs is irrelevant to the overall business model)
- Cyph0n 6y agoThe predecessor to Twitch, justin.tv, started this way too.
- dkdk8283 6y agoYouTube was mostly creator submitted allowing a free and open platform, which is not heavily censored.
- dkdk8283 6y agoNow it is.