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Re:YouTube Will Remove Videos of Creators Who Don’t Sign Its... by corndoge on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @08:12PM (#10429718)
Option 7: Remove all pre-video ads from YouTube and return it to the way it was, dropping the idea of monetizing the world's largest creative platform.

Edit: False dichotomy. Monetization does not necessitate ads. But you get what I meant.

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Re:YouTube Will Remove Videos of Creators Who Don’t Sign Its... by fpgeek on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @08:30PM (#10429778)
Since running YouTube isn't cheap and Google isn't a charity, that seems practically equivalent to shutting down YouTube altogether (after some reasonable notice period).
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Re:YouTube Will Remove Videos of Creators Who Don’t Sign Its... by corndoge on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @09:06PM (#10429887)
Google runs plenty of other things for free that benefit them by driving traffic to their ad platform in the long run.
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Re:YouTube Will Remove Videos of Creators Who Don’t Sign Its... by Merovius on Thursday October 22, 2015 @02:45AM (#10430749)
But nothing even remotely requiring as much traffic and storage.
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Re:YouTube Will Remove Videos of Creators Who Don’t Sign Its... by bo1024 on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @08:25PM (#10429760)
False dichotomy.

Option 8: consider ways to monetize that don't involve video ads.

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Re:YouTube Will Remove Videos of Creators Who Don’t Sign Its... by tssva on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @08:49PM (#10429845)
Like charging a monthly fee to watch videos and sharing a percentage of that fee with creators of the videos.
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Re:YouTube Will Remove Videos of Creators Who Don’t Sign Its... by itsbits on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @10:52PM (#10430166)
that means become a NetFlix
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Re:YouTube Will Remove Videos of Creators Who Don’t Sign Its... by serge2k on Thursday October 22, 2015 @02:29AM (#10430702)
NetFlix with community created content.

The problem is why would people pay for it without incentives. People will pay to not have shitty youtube ads forced more and more often.

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