[kalcode]

I don't think peoples complaints of YouTube are invalid at all.

But I think it is interesting how much credit these people that monetize YouTube don't give google at all.

Video hosting has always been expensive comparatively. They are large files. You tube stores multiple resolutions of your files.

YouTube hosting your video is free. You don't pay for it. These people that are bringing in $500 - $4,000 crying that 'youtube isn't giving me all my money' seem to also have a sense of entitlement in itself.

YouTube has a relationship with its creators. Creators get free video hosting, a video social platform and they can earn quite a bit of money doing it. YouTube in turns get a portion of the ad money too.

When YouTube demonetizes something they lose money too. They know their system can hurt their bottom-line in the end.

Understanding this is a business relationship between the two entities would probably make their attempts more professional. Maybe open a business that represents a large sets of these YouTubers instead of each one make a video about it. That way their collective views are significant chunk and they can apporoach YouTube as a professional entity.

Instead they post drama videos about it.

[vetinari]

Monetized videos are not hosted for free. They are hosted for a percentage of the revenue.

Only free videos are hosted for free, so basically be de-monetizing the videos Youtube brings the hosting costs on themselves, among other things.

[gambler]

>Video hosting has always been expensive comparatively.

Torrents seem to be doing it perfectly fine for free.

People keep speaking about YouTube as if its main function is video storage, while if fact the main thing they bring to the table these days is suggestions, search and a massive pre-established audience. If there was a way to plug into their search/suggestions/ads without giving away control of your video files, a lot of high-earning content creators would likely to do just that. However, there is no such option. I'm not aware of any reliable video search outside of Google.

>Understanding this is a business relationship between the two entities would probably make their attempts more professional. Maybe open a business that represents a large sets of these YouTubers instead of each one make a video about it.

But that's the thing. Content creators don't want a business relationship. The promise of Web 2.0 was that there will be no editors or publishers, just a generic UGC platforms. This idea is massively backfiring right now in all kinds of ways.

[w0m]

> Torrents seem to be doing it perfectly fine for free

.. for quick 30s clips that you want to spread virally through a txt msg to my tech-illiterate mother?

[ravenstine]

I'm pretty sure BitChute uses WebTorrent, although I don't know if that's for mere hosting or just to reduce bandwidth use.

[TeMPOraL]

That's an UX problem mostly. I hope one day IPFS will be able to handle that use case reliably.