YouTube is far, far, FAR more profitable than just its supporting infrastructure. It’s a joke to require ad loads that rival cable television and all its dedica

YouTube is far, far, FAR more profitable than just its supporting infrastructure. It’s a joke to require ad loads that rival cable television and all its dedicated networks and expense and set top boxes and sales and installation requirements in order to “support” Internet video delivery. The argument holds no water. The solution is to allow the people who want to pay for premium value to pay and to push delivery onto peer-to-peer delivery like BitTorrent did 20 years ago so that the expense is minimal and shared by the people who actually watch by hosting what they consume. It’s not hard. Don’t buy the corporate lies on this one. This is 99 percent less expensive delivery of content YouTube gets for free but poor Google needs help with expenses? Not likely. They should be encouraging premium subscription by creating premium services and and supporting it with sponsorship for premium content and access to content creators. We already have many working models like this. They just have too many Hollywood execs and MBAs who are so deeply uncreative and unable to be risk takers or jeopardize their cushy job by making innovative suggestions like this that they can’t come up with any other path. They have a culture problem with their products honestly. We don’t need Internet video to be shit cable over IP networks. Google could actually innovate here.