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Ah the fallacy of content piracy harm. If I steal content it doesn't cost the creator anything. I was never going to pay for said content anyway. If I enjoy con

Ah the fallacy of content piracy harm. If I steal content it doesn't cost the creator anything. I was never going to pay for said content anyway. If I enjoy content to to point of being willing to pay, I would do so anyway, even if I could keep getting it for free, if there is an agreeable way to do that. This applies to software, books, video, music and everything else, and has been proven time and again. Google has just taken advantage of network effects. To say that we wouldn't have it if not for Google is clearly wrong. The first internet content distribution networks (anon FTP and UUCP) were free and cooperative. If Google didn't exist we'd surely distribute video cooperatively too, and likely much more efficiently, they were just more convenient. If they stop ad blocking that's no longer the case. The free ride is not over, it's never over. All that will happen is that business models will change as the market adapts to people's demands and behaviour. The internet has tipped market power in favour of consumers over corporations.

Jensson 3y ago
People quit their jobs and make videos full time thanks to YouTube ads. Those videos wouldn't exist otherwise, people would be busy working regular jobs.
- CrzyLngPwd 3y ago
  Or they might have just created the content and monetised it through their own site.
  - throw0101b 3y ago
    > Or they might have just created the content and monetised it through their own site. Assuming you could find it since discoverability would probably be lower. Then if a particular video 'went viral', it could cost them a lot of money in sudden and unexpected hosting and bandwidth costs. They would also now have to spend time on dealing with 'infrastructure' instead of focusing on creating content. There's a reason why so many people use Youtube and Patreon instead of DIYing it: few folks are interested in re-inventing that entire stack on their own.
    - globular-toast 3y ago
      Why would discoverability be lower? Oh, that's right because Google is the monopoly search engine and would only show stuff on YouTube. P2P exists. People haven't had to pay the full cost of hosting for decades.
- globular-toast 3y ago
  So what's the problem? We need even more Mr Beasts than we already have?
mmmpetrichor 3y ago
You have nothing to worry about, it seems.

Jensson 3y ago

People quit their jobs and make videos full time thanks to YouTube ads. Those videos wouldn't exist otherwise, people would be busy working regular jobs.

CrzyLngPwd 3y ago
Or they might have just created the content and monetised it through their own site.
- throw0101b 3y ago
  > Or they might have just created the content and monetised it through their own site. Assuming you could find it since discoverability would probably be lower. Then if a particular video 'went viral', it could cost them a lot of money in sudden and unexpected hosting and bandwidth costs. They would also now have to spend time on dealing with 'infrastructure' instead of focusing on creating content. There's a reason why so many people use Youtube and Patreon instead of DIYing it: few folks are interested in re-inventing that entire stack on their own.
  - globular-toast 3y ago
    Why would discoverability be lower? Oh, that's right because Google is the monopoly search engine and would only show stuff on YouTube. P2P exists. People haven't had to pay the full cost of hosting for decades.
globular-toast 3y ago
So what's the problem? We need even more Mr Beasts than we already have?

mmmpetrichor 3y ago

You have nothing to worry about, it seems.