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Re:YouTube Red, a $9.99 Site-Wide Ad-Free Subscription with ... by austenallred on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @03:56PM (#10428190)
No, it means that to avoid the situation you just subscribed YouTube forced everyone to agree to be on the subscription plan or they'd effectively be kicked off of YouTube
Re:YouTube Red, a $9.99 Site-Wide Ad-Free Subscription with ... by Johnny555 on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @04:54PM (#10428621)
If I were a content producer, I don't think I'd like that policy, but as a consumer, it makes the service more usable, since I know that anything I can see on the ad-supported Youtube site would be available on the paid site.

Much better than the model that cable TV uses where when I look at the channel guide I can see all of the channels, including the ones that I haven't subscribed to, and it's not until I try to watch a show on one of them that I discover that I can't see it.

Re:YouTube Red, a $9.99 Site-Wide Ad-Free Subscription with ... by homulilly on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @04:03PM (#10428239)
If that's what happened then good, but it sounds like people who don't agree aren't getting kicked off youtube, they're just not shown to subscribers.