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Re:Roger McNamee: I invested early in Google and Facebook an... by forthefuture on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @02:27AM (#14966047)
It costs money to host video. The volume of advertising you sell supports your costs, with a fraction going to the content creators. Using information you gather increases how much advertising you can sell. The more advertising you sell the more money everyone gets.

Having a low cost infrastructure for video streaming and good advertising deals is not a monopoly, it's an investment.

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Re:Roger McNamee: I invested early in Google and Facebook an... by bamboozled on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @07:35PM (#14974786)
But you can still have advertising, just not targeted and use tactics from the gaming industry to get people hooked on content.
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