Nobody have access to 2257 forms excepting service administration. Noone is able to reupload files to their own hosts. All files are hosted on service servers, webmasters are able to operate only with links to files download pages (with contributor's promotion materials).
This is monetization scheme:
40% for content owner - 30% for webmaster - 10% for site owner - 20% for the service
20% to cover hosting bills, to pay staff, buy some new content and get few bucks as profit - not that much.
If content owner don't want to sell his content to let it be downloaded for free, it is possible to make it downloadable only for premium users, no problem. However I don't see why not to sell your content to such service if you sell it to tubes.
You can call it file-locker, or content-locker or whatever you want. The idea is to make this thing work fully legit. However it's impossible without content owners support.
In my opinion it's a better monetisation in comparison with tubes for example.
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