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Originally Posted by gideongallery
yes they do, you can share in the advertising revenue from poste videos.
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You've obviously never worked with YouTube as an affiliate. They screen you heavily, review the content you submit before accepting you, and will drop you instantly (keeping any revenue you may have generated) the minute you post an infringing video. Get it now?
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Originally Posted by gideongallery
the fact is that hotfiles makes exactly the same amount of money per download if i put up a movie as a PARODY of a movie.
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Wrong again. They make money when people get tired of the limited download speed bullshit and pay up. They pay affiliates per download. That intentionally encourages posting infringing content, for which they then DIRECTLY benefit. This can be proven in court: they rarely, if ever, disable accounts of repeat infringers (people against whom multiple valid DMCAs have been filed).
It doesn't matter how much non-infringing content they host. What matters is the business model they have established which places them outside the safe harbor protection of the DMCA. RapidShare was smart enough to see this, and changed their ways. YouTube never offered this kind of incentive, and is smart enough not to. Let's see if these other file hosts are smart or stupid.