![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They also lost before commerical skipping existed, in the 80s, when they tried, and again failed to get VHS recording of live TV banned, because you could fast forward through the commercials.īefore that, there were attempts to make it illegal to record songs off of the radio, going back to the 70s! Commercial skipping by a variety of products was challenged in court they lost. Old school TV, and cable companies, lost this argument looong ago. That friction only exists because of the restrictive licensing and DRM. The only reason people keep paying for netflix is because piracy has friction. YouTube is certainly at the scale that they could trivially host all of Netflix's content and their business would be gone overnight. I appreciate that's no small feet, but it's certainly easier than making the content in the first place and paying the bandwidth fees. If netflix removed their license restrictions, that means a big player could host their content and pretty much only pay the bandwidth costs. It's really interesting you bring up netflix because it probably demonstrates this problem more clearly. ![]() If they removed the restrictions though, why not give it a go? Twitch could host say the top 10% of gaming content off YouTube and earn ad revenue off it, or include it as part of Twitch Prime ad free. As it stands, licensing and DRM protections mean that none of the big players will touch hosting another's content, YouTube's legal team would be would be all over them like a ton of bricks. I did not suggest everyone would 'steal it' (whatever stealing means with open licensing) but enough would for it to significantly materially impact their business. In fact, I will go so far as to say that the convenience of Netflix over torrents is so great for the average person, that they'd keep paying even if there was no DRM on Netflix, because > No, I'm suggesting that not everyone would steal it, in te same way that not everyone shoplifts now. It's only at that point does the DRM feel restrictive, in the same way that you would expect your hands to be tied behind your back in a shop if you steal something. The overwhelming majority of people are quite happy consuming content with DRM and heavily restricted license agreements, it adds no friction to their experience.ĭRM and license restrictions only matter when you want to break their terms, which is analogous to the point in a shop when someone tries to steal something. > no supermarket ever tied my hands behind my back on entry.Īgain, I don't follow this analogy. What security measures can YouTube employ which are compatible with FOSS? How can they prevent users copying the content if the content is DRM free and has an open license? They all have some degree of security, but no supermarket ever tied my hands behind my back on entry. > And I've never seen a video streaming site that just gave you links to download the videos. Potentially undermining their core business model just to increase ad viewership by a few percentage points doesn't seem like a sound strategy. Perhaps YouTube should just accept that ad blocking is part of the market landscape they operate it, and plan their monetization around reasonable estimates of the actual reach of their ads with blocking taken into account. I don't know what their finances and operations look like internally, but I suspect that the revenue they are bringing is enough for them to operate very much in the black, despite some proportion of their audience blocking ads, just as traditional broadcast TV networks have been profitable for decades without having nay mechanism to ensure that viewers are watching commercials. If YouTube doesn't want to make content accessible for free anymore, it would undermine the use case of the vast majority of people who use it to distribute their own content. They are primarily a hosting platform used by third-party content providers. YouTube provides their content for free.īut YouTube provides very little content of their own. ![]()
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