so they get investors

but never make any profit

until the endgame

the investors foot the bill

you have no idea of the costs of video content. Hell, even if you wanted to host JUST _your_ videos, it costs a LOT

I don't think YT can make money, ever. And be completely free. Far to much server space. The reason Google keeps YT is for the collection of data. It is a gold mine for any AI project. If you get something for free your are the product.

why does it cost money? what is the overhead? server space, and a webface, right?

Google would keep YT even if it didn't make money ever, because it makes money on their other products

and the people to maintain that

traffic costs alone are huge

HD space for the video in 5 different formats is another

Bandwidth and server maintenance.

Google or Mirosoft put a sever at the bottom of the ocean to save on cooling.

well, i just figured out what the first instantiation on the moon will be

although thats not entirely accurate. space is rather hot for being so cold

Supermarkets are offering their frozen storage space to server providers. It's really expensive.

The coldest natural place in the sola system is on the moon. A creater on the northpole has never seen the sun.

first installation on the moon from private companies: a server farm

Let's start with Greenland shall we. And see how we go fro mthere.

i mean, why not start with the Antarctica? land has to be cheaper, less government regs, probably colder too

I don't think you're far from the truth there. Fast forward a few decades and you'll have power stations being commissioned there.

So it's clear that you can't make things 100% free like YouTube. Well, unless you are a data collection firm. But we all know how well people like those. So what about something in the middle. Free you get X amount of hours of free video hosting. Hit that limit, you need to free up space. The sell teirs or features. Because part of the problem with youtube is that probably most of the stuff it is storing, it's not get much if any traffic. So basically it's free storage.

Which is a major drain in resources.

a data collection firm like Discord

Like all free sites

Or you can have the YT that we have. A very rich company that realizes how important a site like YT is and writes off the cost as a charity.

They don't write it off as charity. It's overhead fr advertising.

For*

A company could.

YouTube isn't important. We had tv and still do.

It's only popular because it is free, and people can make a living off it

But it's free because we are not the customer. Companies are

Which is why it keeps shooting it's creators because it's customers are being finicky

You have to pay to use the air waves. YT is important because it is free for everyone. TV has gate keepers. Thats why I think it would be good for a company to realize the good that YT brings and take it on as a charity. No need to worry about hit pieces. Although I'm not sure how long theses pieces will have any effect.

youtube has gatekeepers

Where are the gay traps?

It's Thursday. They take Thursdays off. Come back tomorrow.

YT has Gatekeepers. I didn't say it was perfect put a private company is the best way to run it. You can't have it ran by a government.

the only real way to not have gatekeepers is either through having lots of competition, or by decentralization. Which should be an option with block chain. make creators pay for storage of their videos. "want 50 gb for data? give me 50 gb on your machine. uninstall the app? fine, your channel goes down by how much space that machine gave me"

put all the cost on the people using the system