• mjs@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      2 years ago

      There’s a reason why they are the only ones. It’s very hard to scale a platform to YouTube scale. Like insanely hard and very expensive. The only other players that could take over are Meta and maybe Microsoft. Not sure if they would be any better.

      • webadict@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        8
        arrow-down
        3
        ·
        2 years ago

        Is pirating stealing? Nothing was taken from YouTube. You could say it’s unauthorized access, or unauthorized duplication of data, but none of that leaves YouTube down any data.

        • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          9
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          2 years ago

          In their defense, it costs bandwidth to Google.

          In my attack, fuck Google. Costing them money is a good thing. They are literally trying to lock down corporate control over the Internet.