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It occurs to me that the value of YT today is primarily the network effect / discoverability. Between the video tag, availability of cheap flash video players,
by drewcrawford 14y ago
It occurs to me that the value of YT today is primarily the network effect / discoverability. Between the video tag, availability of cheap flash video players, and CloudFront/S3, the cost to create YT has fallen dramatically, and there are even things for ordinary people to self-host like VideoPress.
My suspicion though is that robustness to DMCA complaints is an "unfeature"--you don't need it until you do. Like an insurance policy or backup equipment, you're convincing people to pay now for something they might need later, which is a hard thing to sell.