"People who think they're entitled to free unfettered video hosting on YouTube are dreaming. There's no historic precedent to indicate that it should be so..."

"People who think they're entitled to free unfettered video hosting on YouTube are dreaming. There's no historic precedent to indicate that it should be so..." We have a choice as societies to fund public archives that are free from (direct) corporate interference. Corporations and governments aren't clearly distinct entities, as corporate execs work as politicians and politicians often retire from office only to get hired by the corporations they regulated or gave business to while in office, but there's still a big difference between a corporation made to profit its owners/investors and a non-profit government entity supposed to benefit the public good. We now have so much of the world's cultural artifacts in the hands of these few incredibly powerful corporations at whose whim any/all of them could be lost. It doesn't have to be this way.