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Re:Blender is testing PeerTube after YouTube blocks their vi... by falcolas on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @02:18PM (#17349063)
If its not monetized, then YouTube has no way to make money off the views; no way to recoup the costs associated with hosting those videos. History, morality, and good will aside, its in their financial best interest to not allow videos which are not monetized.
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Re:Blender is testing PeerTube after YouTube blocks their vi... by atrus on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @03:08PM (#17349444)
Sure, but YouTube gives the option to not monetize your videos. You can't give your users and option and then be upset when some users pick that option.

If people picking that option is causing problems for your business, you take that option away.

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Re:Blender is testing PeerTube after YouTube blocks their vi... by jkchu on Thursday June 21, 2018 @07:51PM (#17370153)
But isn't that what YouTube was essentially trying to do here?
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Re:Blender is testing PeerTube after YouTube blocks their vi... by zelon88 on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @03:02PM (#17349388)
Then they run the risk of ostracizing creators. Creators bring viewers to YouTube. In many ways YT is like Pandora. The "product" of YouTube is other people's creativity.

YT is free to block whatever content they want for whatever reason. However, creators will follow the path of least resistance and viewers will follow creators.

Push the creators away and there will be no viewers to show ads to.

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Re:Blender is testing PeerTube after YouTube blocks their vi... by UncleEntity on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @03:49PM (#17349755)
Other than using them as loss-leaders, people watch a blender foundation video then deep dive into the multitude of monetized tutorials on the YouTubes.

I'd venture to say most people learning blender will spend a significant time on YouTube, blender isn't the easiest thing to learn by a long shot.

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Re:Blender is testing PeerTube after YouTube blocks their vi... by mistercow on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @12:56AM (#17352670)
That's kind of like saying it's in a restaurant's financial best interest not to give free refills. Running a profitable business is not simply a matter of directly reclaiming every dollar you spend.
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