See you make actually made a great point here! Take the movie theatre example. When a movie theatre shows a movie they dont let you in unless you buy a ticket.

See you make actually made a great point here! Take the movie theatre example. When a movie theatre shows a movie they dont let you in unless you buy a ticket. This is in contrast to Youtube where if you can connect to the address of the page the content will be streamed. If you want to charge per view of your videos then I suggest you find a different service to host them because that is just not how youtube works. Nothing is being stolen.