[yamtaddle]

We don't know what options we're missing out on because there's a monopoly dominating the market. Relevantly to this discussion, it's certainly created a situation where creators don't have anywhere to go if Youtube is abusing them. It may also be suppressing their compensation, for the ones who do it for money. Free-to-the-user services like this even discourage open-source development of competing applications, adoption rates and development-interest in related open protocols, and nonprofit services.

[Mindwipe]

Open source doesn't pay bandwidth bills.

I would also break YouTube up, but that's because I think the death of free video streaming wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing.