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Something has to pay for that insane amount of storage and bandwidth. I'm not sure where people get the idea that YouTube should be a charity. $12 just to rem

Something has to pay for that insane amount of storage and bandwidth. I'm not sure where people get the idea that YouTube should be a charity. $12 just to remove ads is way too steep though. There are premium streaming services with big budget movies and TV shows that cost less than that.

jazzyjackson 5y ago
> Something has to pay for that insane amount of storage and bandwidth This is my hill to die on: we already do. I bought a computer and pay an ISP for bandwidth, back when audio and video was just pirated there was no one to demand we watch ads in return for a few pennies of remote storage.
- babypuncher 5y ago
  Your ISP doesn't cover the storage cost or outbound bandwidth of YouTube's servers. How is YouTube supposed to pay for that without ads or subscriptions?
- Jtsummers 5y ago
  Well, video streaming, in particular, picked up in the mid-00s. But audio streaming predated it (slightly), as internet radio. It, very often, had ads. Pandora, circa 2005, also had ads (or a paid service). Advertisement in exchange for free access to media is not a novel thing.
- matheusmoreira 5y ago
  But what about the poor monopolists? How will their great great grandchildren get paid royalties?
- AnthonyMouse 5y ago
  A major impediment to this is that Apple prohibits BitTorrent and similar apps on iOS, preventing a P2P YouTube competitor from becoming popular.
  - babypuncher 5y ago
    Apple doesn't ban P2P networking as a whole, just file sharing clients that are clearly meant for facilitating piracy. If Joost was still around I highly doubt Apple would block it from the App Store.
windowsrookie 5y ago
I only pay $10 because I was an early subscriber, but I would still pay $12. I spend more time on YouTube than any other service so it's worth it for me. It also includes YouTube Music which means I don't have to pay for a Spotify or similar service separately.
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userbinator 5y ago
Not my problem. Fuck them if they want to force me to consume. Remember that they want you to pay them to play content in the background , something every general-purpose multitasking computer could do before.

jazzyjackson 5y ago

> Something has to pay for that insane amount of storage and bandwidth This is my hill to die on: we already do. I bought a computer and pay an ISP for bandwidth, back when audio and video was just pirated there was no one to demand we watch ads in return for a few pennies of remote storage.

babypuncher 5y ago
Your ISP doesn't cover the storage cost or outbound bandwidth of YouTube's servers. How is YouTube supposed to pay for that without ads or subscriptions?
Jtsummers 5y ago
Well, video streaming, in particular, picked up in the mid-00s. But audio streaming predated it (slightly), as internet radio. It, very often, had ads. Pandora, circa 2005, also had ads (or a paid service). Advertisement in exchange for free access to media is not a novel thing.
matheusmoreira 5y ago
But what about the poor monopolists? How will their great great grandchildren get paid royalties?
AnthonyMouse 5y ago
A major impediment to this is that Apple prohibits BitTorrent and similar apps on iOS, preventing a P2P YouTube competitor from becoming popular.
- babypuncher 5y ago
  Apple doesn't ban P2P networking as a whole, just file sharing clients that are clearly meant for facilitating piracy. If Joost was still around I highly doubt Apple would block it from the App Store.

windowsrookie 5y ago

I only pay $10 because I was an early subscriber, but I would still pay $12. I spend more time on YouTube than any other service so it's worth it for me. It also includes YouTube Music which means I don't have to pay for a Spotify or similar service separately.

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userbinator 5y ago

Not my problem. Fuck them if they want to force me to consume. Remember that they want you to pay them to play content in the background , something every general-purpose multitasking computer could do before.