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Then you'd need some server to serve those assets. That would lead to a CDN or similar.
Then you'd need a player. HTML seems to play back mpeg fine but you'll probably need a player for HLS. video.js seems fine here.
Source: built this for $dayjob
Its says front end to youtube but it will give you a good idea of whats required-> https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped
Copyright offences on an industrial scale.
Moderation. The hard part is Moderation. Especially the larger you scale, the less this becomes a technical problem, and more of a 'how will people abuse this' problem. Second hardest part? Paying for it. Streaming 1080 streams can get expensive. especially if it's unpaid. Costs grow exponentially with video quality. 4k is significantly more bandwidth. there's tons of ways to stream video to people. that's the easy p…
Is the first part actually true though? YouTube goes well beyond just moderating actually dangerous or undeniably extremist (think Isis videos) viewpoints. And to what profit? Have any major platforms failed due lax moderation policies?