They will be allowed to protest, as they always have been, by taking their videos to some other distributor. That being said, after Youtube puts DRM on every vi

They will be allowed to protest, as they always have been, by taking their videos to some other distributor. That being said, after Youtube puts DRM on every video, everybody else will follow suit. Online video is a broken market that Google had absolutely no luck breaking into, so they just bought the winner. Youtube will be as concerned about people leaving over this as they would be if a segment of creators didn't want them to use vp9 for any transcodes, or for their videos not to be viewable through Chrome. They will apologize to the half-dozen people that close their channels, and suggest that they try Rumble or whatever.