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Originally Posted by Barefootsies
DWB, you know I love you man. We've had some good one-on-one chats, and in general see eye to eye on many things about business, and this industry. That being said....
....this is written from the hobbyist point of view.
By that I mean, Nathan/Fabian/whatever name he goes by had explained most of this at the keynote last Jan.. In the end it really comes down to they have to remain in business, and are slowing changing their tubes via baby steps.
I am not saying it's right or wrong, but I see their point of view as a business owner. You have your own financial viability, as they are now the industry leader in traffic and pay sites, plus you have the legal constraints of DMCA and whatever else.
I am not forgiving them, I am not forgetting how they had gotten here, I am simply saying now that they are a monolith, there are other considerations that play into their business model.
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I don't disagree with any of that. The tubes are here to stay and they have traffic. That I do not debate.
What I would like to see happen is to place restrictions on the uploaders by how they create an account. Just make a system to verify them. If you have to have
[email protected] in order to create an account, that will eliminate a large portion of 3rd world and broke ass uploaders. Then go a step further and say only videos can be loaded from that account that come from the site or program attached to the email. That would eliminate another huge portion of pirates.
If they are pirates who steal, they will not meet that criteria.
But of course they would never, ever do this because they NEED fresh stolen content from random uploaders. Thus my point of him not giving a real shit about piracy. Because if he did care, he would find ways, such as those I mentioned and others, to stop pirate uploaders.
Just own it Fabian. Say you
need piracy and wear it like man. You can still throw money at the cause like you care, but just admit you NEED piracy.