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Re:YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Video... by emodendroket on Monday June 18, 2018 @03:04PM (#17340807)
What reason is there to think it would? There used to be a bunch of services YouTube competed with; now few of them are even worth mentioning, let alone serious competitors.
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Re:YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Video... by dilap on Monday June 18, 2018 @07:17PM (#17342411)
i think there's a couple of reasons for optimism:

1. high-speed net access is becoming more and more common; higher speed help makes the possible overhead of distributed solutions less of a barrier

2. there is more awareness now of the downsides of having a centralized provider. many youtube creators and users have been burned by google; i think that'll generate real demand for a decentralized solution.

3. existence/arguably success of decentralized currencies provides a lot of psychic energy/motivation for making decentralized things.

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