> Obviously Google can't prevent content creators from embedding their own ads Of course they could, just make it part of the service agreement. I would feel

> Obviously Google can't prevent content creators from embedding their own ads Of course they could, just make it part of the service agreement. I would feel much inclined to pay for youtube if they filtered out all ad-funded content. Even better, they could have a model where content creators for the paid service got their piece of the revenue based in quality metrics rather than quantity metrics.