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Re:The Pirate Bay is trialing high-quality video streaming by CamelCaseName on Sunday December 15, 2019 @09:01PM (#21800293)
>You can't just use YouTube unless you want to give it away for free.

I believe you can actually.

YouTube has a section where you can pay for movies here: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UClgRkhTL3_hImCAmdLfDE4g

And here is a discussion on how indie filmmakers can get into it: https://www.reddit.com/r/Filmmakers/comments/c01kyd/how_to_r...

There's definitely a higher barrier for movies, but it does seem possible.

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Re:The Pirate Bay is trialing high-quality video streaming by paranoidrobot on Monday December 16, 2019 @03:18AM (#21801553)
I knew about their paid services, my point is that you can't just go to youtube.com, sign up and sell a movie.

The links you provide show that it's still a huge barrier. The requirements for getting onto youtube arn't something you can just do if you have a movie you want to sell.

Even with the unknown ($1500? according to that comment, but no links to back it up) payment to a distributor, there's still almost certainly more hurdles and time/etc.

Compare that to the experience with, say, Bandcamp - their [pricing is transparent and up-front](https://bandcamp.com/pricing), and you can go ahead and sign up with minimal fuss. From a customer perspective, it's equally as pain and hassle free.

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