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Outrage. Offering people a free service to suddenly demand payment may get some to pay but the negative press might put them in front of regulators. Google wi
by ipaddr 5y ago
Outrage. Offering people a free service to suddenly demand payment may get some to pay but the negative press might put them in front of regulators. Google will simply degrade the product and offer a better one for a fee.
The bigger question is.. is watching that video worth 5 cents to someone. If not that video will disappear or be scaled down in quality so it costs 1 cent.
- hannasanarion 5y agoVimeo was never a free service though. No matter how big your channel is, to upload to Vimeo, you have to pay, that's how it's always been. The fees have, to date, been on a flat schedule, ranging from $100-$600/yr for various weekly upload limits. This has apparently become unsustainable for Vimeo, as there are no longer enough "minnows" who upload fewer videos on the platform than their subscription pays to subsidize the "whales" who upload more than what their subscription pays for.
- bdougherty 5y agoThat's not entirely true. There has always been, and still is, a free account, but of course it doesn't have all the features and has a very low upload limit.
- ipaddr 5y agoVimeo was always a free service. Signup now and upload a video.