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Re:How the EU may force all artists to use Youtube forever by gregknicholson on Thursday September 06, 2018 @02:37AM (#17924302)
The network effect isn't very relevant for video sites, because you can easily use a search engine to find videos across many sites all at once.

Hey, I wonder which search engine 90% of people use…

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Re:How the EU may force all artists to use Youtube forever by jplayer01 on Friday September 07, 2018 @03:31AM (#17932496)
That’s assuming most people use google to find videos to watch. It’s much more likely that through network effects, people arrive at YouTube through YT links given to them by friends and acquaintances, then they stay on YT. Looking through my WhatsApp groups, that’s entirely likely. Or people by default go to YT because that’s what they know, they’re already part of the YT community, they already have an account there, etc.
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Re:How the EU may force all artists to use Youtube forever by jononor on Thursday September 06, 2018 @06:58AM (#17925292)
Wonder which video that search engine chooses to promote...
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Re:How the EU may force all artists to use Youtube forever by quxbar on Thursday September 06, 2018 @09:25AM (#17926040)
when I'm looking up not-available-in-the-USA episodes of The Great British Bake Off? Usually Dailymotion, which even has chromecast pretty well integrated with their player.
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Re:How the EU may force all artists to use Youtube forever by gregknicholson on Friday September 07, 2018 @09:52AM (#17934204)
This is a good point. Even if you escape YouTube (which isn't quite a monopoly by itself) you'll still end up running into some other tentacle of the Google-kraken: Chromecast is Google's proprietary video transmission protocol.
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Re:How the EU may force all artists to use Youtube forever by quxbar on Friday September 07, 2018 @10:10PM (#17939007)
Right, and they happily transmit pirate video to my TV as long as it isn't hosted by YouTube, because it's not like I was going to BUY all of those seasons - it's strictly better for their bottom line if I buy the chromecast and pirate.
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