Re:Explaining copyright broke the YouTube copyright system
by SpelingBeeChamp on Thursday March 05, 2020 @02:21AM
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And how do the content creators get paid in this torrent-based system? That’s the “real problem” with it. It won’t have high quality content. (At least not legally.)
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Re:Explaining copyright broke the YouTube copyright system
by uk_programmer on Thursday March 05, 2020 @02:33AM
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On a site (which uses webtorrent) you can either serve ads (like youtube does), BAT (or equivalent) or have a subscriber model.
I would wage most people won't even know they are being served by the web torrent mechanism when you hit the page. The video player looks like a regular html 5 video player.
You can just point youtube-dl at a video. However the vast majority of viewers just use the site / phone app.