Re:YouTube “Let's Play”s are preserving video game history
by dpkonofa on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @09:43PM
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What? That's exactly how the internet worked before YouTube. YouTube became the standard because you could easily upload things for free since the content was no longer the product. YouTube is only free because they can sell the data surrounding the videos to advertisers. Without that, we'd have exactly the situation that I'm describing because that's exactly the situation that we did have before YouTube came around (and that YouTube helped before it became beholden to companies rather than creators).
Re:YouTube “Let's Play”s are preserving video game history
by philwelch on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @11:17PM
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> What? That's exactly how the internet worked before YouTube.
Yeah--there weren't very many videos because most web hosting services didn't let you consume that much hard drive space.
If it wasn't for YouTube, most of those videos never would have been embedded in those pages in the first place. If the situation you describe was in any way feasible, people would have done that in the first place instead of using YouTube. You're asking for an imaginary free lunch type of situation.