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January 29, 2007

Plus, If I Don’t Pay Anybody, I Get More Money

by AltHippo @ 2:09 pm. Filed under technology

YouTube announces that it will rip-off video providers slightly less than it does currently: (Washington Post, emphasis mine)

Hurley, 30, gave no details of how much users might receive or what mechanism would be used.

In October 2005, Revver — which like YouTube offers video clips online — announced plans to attach advertising to user-submitted videos and give their creators a cut of the profit.

Hurley said that when YouTube started, he and the site’s co-founders — Steve Chen and Jawed Karim — thought revenue sharing would build a community of users motivated by making money rather a love of videos.

Really? So you figured you’d keep all the money and that would make the motives of the YouTube community purer? Because YouTube founders aren’t corrupted by the same influences that its users are?

Now, I’ve been pointing out that YouTube is the most parasitic of the video sharing sites for a few months now. How did it get so popular? As far as I can tell, because it didn’t do any policing of copyright violation until fairly recently when it was hit by several lawsuits. By then, the branding had been established.

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One Response to “Plus, If I Don’t Pay Anybody, I Get More Money”

  1. Barzelay Says:
    January 29th, 2007 at 6:04 pm

    YouTube still doesn’t do any policing of copyright violations. It can’t, or else it would certainly fail to qualify under the DMCA’s safe harbor provisions. None of the other services ever did any serious policing either.

    I read an article that suggested the reason GoogleVideo mostly failed was that the barriers to uploading were too great. It simply required too many steps. Perhaps YouTube’s genius was just that they made sure anyone could handle the uploading. And that’s where your theory steps in; once their brand was known, it didn’t matter what they did.

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