[pseudohadamard]

Look at it the other way round, Google takes nearly half of their income, where they're putting a huge amount of time and energy into creating content while Google's contribution is hosting the data on a server. It also reinforces the YouTube hostage situation where content creators can't afford to leave the abusive relationship because they'll lose most of the income that Google isn't already taking off them.

[wilg]

If that's all of Google's contribution then creators should have no problem hosting the data themselves and keeping the difference for themselves.