Re:Using Python helped YouTube ship features faster than Goo...
by bsder on Monday March 26, 2018 @03:45PM
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> I think the web is monetizing video at an appropriate rate, considering most video itself is essentially worthless.
Um, I think you are confusing cause and effect.
Isn't worthless video exactly the problem that subsidizing video delivery caused?
If you have to pay even a penny to put your video on the web, most video disappears and suddenly the quality skyrockets.
That video content is costly to produce, and kills bandwidth indiscriminately, does not mean video is valuable. Just because there’s a high bar for video to exist, doesn’t mean that cost should get passed on to consumers.
Most video is non-essential, and consumers get to be picky about where their disposable income goes. Video needs to be redeeming to the viewer, whatever their tastes may be, and whose fault is it that the surplus of junk content exists?