Jim Sterling weighs in on #WTFU

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think-man said:

binary solo said:
it's the problem of the monopoly. Youtube has a monopoly and therefore can become abusive without having to worry about losing anything. So someone needs to make a competing service. I think these professional youtubers should get together ans start their own "Youtube Pro" service, although not call it "Youtube" of course. Call it "Fairtube" or something. Then leave youtube to become a wasteland of cat videos. They have the subscriber and viewer base to make a sustainable alternative, if enough of them get together and start their own thing.

All other youtube type channels have failed. Youtube is too popular now.

They failked because it was too soon, and because people haven't got sufficiently pissed off, and really popular individual professional youtubers weren't numerous enough to go off and start their own thing. I think the time is near when a competing service can get started and attract a lot of people with a high subscriber base. Where the youtuber goes the subscriber base will follow. Since what Google is doing is, as Jim says, legal, then without an alternative place to go the abuse will continue because companies don't give a shit about what's ethical unless there's money in being ethical, the only way to make a company care about ethics is to have another service that takes revenue away from them.