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Would You Pay For YouTube Videos?
secmartin writes "A couple of weeks ago, Google's CEO mentioned to investors that they might start charging YouTube's users for viewing content: 'With respect to how it will get monetized, our first priority, as you pointed out, is on the advertising side. We do expect over time to see micro payments and other forms of subscription models coming as well. But our initial focus is on advertising. We will be announcing additional things in that area literally very, very soon.' With the recent Disney-Hulu deal, Google is under increasing pressure to generate more revenue and at the same time attract more premium content. That means we might see payment options coming even sooner than expected, with control over the pricing models being handed over to the studios providing that content, like the way Apple caved in over variable pricing on iTunes. This raises an important question: would you actually pay for premium content on YouTube and other sites, or will this draw viewers away to other video sites?"
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Criminal or not I don't care, I'm still going to pirate it. I really couldn't care less if I destroy the industry. I'll just play some games instead of watching South Park. Then after the games industry dies I'll listen to some music and so on.
Take what ye can. Give nothing back!
I download purely because bittorrent IS the BEST solution available.
Compare the pros and cons of Buying DVDs vs Bittorrent and you will see why Bittorrent is so popular.
ThePirateBay gives me movies on demand, from home. It normally takes 5 working days for DVDs to arrive whereas I can download a movie in less than 2-3hours.
My ISP offers an online movie rental service, however I need to use their proprietary software to download an play the movie. I want to use VLC media player to watch movies not install a new piece of software which may or may not run on the system i'm using at the time.
DVD's are a pain in the ass to rip, files from the pirate bay are just easier to work with, you can't just right click a DVD and select "Send to Thumb drive"
The Pirate Bay just provides better service, it provides what consumers want.
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