Jesus fucking Christ, did it take your only two neurons sparking from ear to ear to generate that thought?
Youtube has a cost by hosting the videos for you and a billion other users to view. If you can’t see how that costs a shitton of money, you might actually be an idiot.
Services which were freely offered when creators added their content to YouTube, at no charge to YouTube, with no indication that there would be an attempt to charge an access fee.
YouTube encouraged the community to build a theme park while not paying even minimum wage to most of the builders, then decided to charge the community for admission to the park they built. This should be regarded as fraud and/or theft.
it was, and still is, a private platform. In the EU the new digital markets act now considers big players “gatekeepers” and actually does something about this behaviour
You mean the stuff that people uploaded to YouTube, which YouTube didn’t create for themselves, and has no right to build a wall around?
There’s no wall, you’re free to email your favourite creators to ask if they can email you their videos
There is still a wall around the content hosted on YouTube.
Jesus fucking Christ, did it take your only two neurons sparking from ear to ear to generate that thought?
Youtube has a cost by hosting the videos for you and a billion other users to view. If you can’t see how that costs a shitton of money, you might actually be an idiot.
No I mean the bandwidth, engineering, hosting, support, moderation and community events
Services which were freely offered when creators added their content to YouTube, at no charge to YouTube, with no indication that there would be an attempt to charge an access fee.
YouTube encouraged the community to build a theme park while not paying even minimum wage to most of the builders, then decided to charge the community for admission to the park they built. This should be regarded as fraud and/or theft.
it was, and still is, a private platform. In the EU the new digital markets act now considers big players “gatekeepers” and actually does something about this behaviour