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Re:YouTube might terminate your access if not profitable for... by chii on Monday November 11, 2019 @07:38AM (#21504328)
> Obscure and/or old archive footage which usually doesnt get that many views is one of the best things about YT.

and one of the costs youtube bears, since by definition they can't make money off those videos, but has to pay for storage.

I dont know if there's a solution - perhaps non-commercialized accounts can't upload more than X gigabytes of vidoes, or be forced to have ads? Or you (the channel owner) pay for the storage?

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Re:YouTube might terminate your access if not profitable for... by drorh on Monday November 11, 2019 @11:22PM (#21511498)
> and one of the costs youtube bears, since by definition they can't make money off those videos, but has to pay for storage.

Sure they can make money off them - they just need to be creative. For example, you can have a category of 'archived videos' to which you need to pay to be able to access. The payment is for the service, not for the video so it does not matter what are the specific settings on a specific video.

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Re:YouTube might terminate your access if not profitable for... by boomboomsubban on Monday November 11, 2019 @07:56AM (#21504445)
Even consumer SSD's are around 10 cents per gigabyte of storage. These videos wouldn't get many views, but they don't need a ton to recoup storage costs.
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