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YouTube and Facebook Are Losing Creators to Blockchain-Powered Rivals

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Re: YouTube and Facebook Are Losing Creators to Blockchain-Powered Rivals

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Post by pjc50 »

rectang wrote: post #67
mrtksn wrote: post #15

You know what's interesting? A Decentralised media platform used to be huge and actually is still huge: Torrents. There's a huge community that consumes media that's not hosted anywhere particular and there are apps like Popcorn Time that offer viewing experience almost as good as Netflix. The problem, of course, is that up until now there was no way to reward the creators and almost all the media consumed on Torrent…

> It is a huge topic in the blockchain community to find a way to reward content creators and we see early attempts that may or may not succeed at this. What of the "information wants to be free" faction which is indifferent or hostile to the idea of content creators being rewarded? I expect there continue to be polarization where most creators of commercially viable content remain within establishment channels despi…

I don't think the faction is "hostile to the idea of content creators being rewarded" per se, but people are hostile to content middlemen being rewarded, and they're hostile to what I call "content prevention services": the real work of MPAA et al is not in distributing content, but in preventing content from being distributed.

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Post by otterpro »

I like the idea of Dtube and I signed up (via steemit and took about a week to be aproved) so I can upload video as an alternative to Youtube, but it's frustrating to click on video and wait for few minutes of loading screen only to get a cryptic "Error occurred while loading video", especially videos that are older than a month old. I'm not sure why I couldn't view these videos, but my guess is that either that they were taken down by the owner or by others for violation, or that there were problems in IPFS. Anyway, it's been a very frustrating experience so far.

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Post by ada1981 »

dyukqu wrote: post #95
Jyaif wrote: post #11

Roughly half of the content is about cryptocurrencies. The other half is stolen content (e.g. https://d.tube/#!/c/nba-highlights ). I don't think YT and FB are sad about losing those types of "creators".

They say " Good artists copy, great artists steal ". :-) I'm not sure whether it's true or not. Just saying...

I actually said that originally.

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Post by sbov »

prepend wrote: post #86
ghaff wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is subscribing to HBO inconvenient? It's a combination of price and convenience. There's some upper limit to the monthly price you (and everyone else) is willing to pay for content.

HBO Now is a much worse experience than torrents. The navigation is slow, the updates to new episodes are poorly placed under a bunch of clicks, there are ads for other hbo shows over and over (even after I watched every single West world episode they still show me ads about a “new show”), streaming bugs (Although this improved quite a bit). It wasn’t the price that moved me away from HBONow, it was their lack of con…

Yeah, the HBO UI is terrible. Netflix is great except it seems to constantly change what it is showing on Roku. Sometimes my "continue watching" is up top. Sometimes it is nowhere to be found. I've had to literally search for a show I started the day before to continue watching it.

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Post by kadenshep »

fortythirteen wrote: post #179
kadenshep wrote: post #174

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>content is extremist bullshit. Mainly just right+ extremists. No need to beat around the bush.

That's only because the left+ extremists are tolerated, if not condoned, on the SV run platforms.

Probably because left+ extremists don't inherently have dehumanization and genocide as part of their political and moral beliefs. You can disagree with economic allocation theories, but it's really not appropriate to compare the two.

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Post by LordHeini »

strictnein wrote: post #155
LordHeini wrote: post #138

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Or the random person who uploaded it.

Youtube automatically identifies almost all copyrighted music when videos are uploaded and copyright owners can decide who will be the one to monetize it. Almost all of the major players have the monetization assigned to themselves.

How do you know that?

There are tons of whole albums which are definitively not "monetized" by their makers.

E.g. old stuff where the band does not exists anymore or all the low selling genres where nobody cares. It is not a bad thing since i discovered a lot of cool stuff like that.

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Post by kadenshep »

fortythirteen wrote: post #202
miragle wrote: post #198

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That's probably because they're not posting abhorrent content.

Yeah, because 100 million murdered by communists in the 20th century wasn't enough, amirite?

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Post by ada1981 »

ghaff wrote: post #165
neffy wrote: post #147

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No, it's not that. The BBC is tied up in the same licensing mess as everybody else in the media industry. Everything is licensed... scripts, individual rights, director rights, ownership is transferred, tracked, ends up with third parties. It's a complete, unholy, worldwide mess of ownership spaghetti under the hood, and that's at some level why the only alternative is torrents.

And much of it predates people even thinking about this stuff. Thus, you have a TV series like Northern Exposure for which the music was a fairly integral part and you can't even buy DVDs with all the original music included. Even today, I was reading that one Black Mirror episode for which the closing song was just so on had licensed it for 15 years. Which is a long time but hardly forever.

Wierd to License something like that for only a few years. What happens in 15 years? They have to renegotiate a license or re-edit the show?

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Post by miragle »

fortythirteen wrote: post #202
miragle wrote: post #198

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's probably because they're not posting abhorrent content.

Yeah, because 100 million murdered by communists in the 20th century wasn't enough, amirite?

How did you jump from talking about left politics on the internet to literally murdering 100 million people?

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Post by mrtksn »

metmirr wrote: post #62
Jyaif wrote: post #11

Roughly half of the content is about cryptocurrencies. The other half is stolen content (e.g. https://d.tube/#!/c/nba-highlights ). I don't think YT and FB are sad about losing those types of "creators".

Not all. I am another one who love steemit and create original content for it.

Can you give a link to your original content? I'm curious what HN'ers create!
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