I'm in favour of people making money from their work. Maybe I'm old fashioned that way. IMDB, Duolingo and Wikipedia have encouraged the model of using unpaid labour.

YouTube isn't paying people properly, despite its vast revenues. At least with sponsorship the people themselves make some money.

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godshatter an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I'm not saying this is the way to go, but damn do I miss the old internet where passionate people presented information for free, at worst showing an affiliate link for an information-related book.

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choo-t 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Wikipedia predates Youtube by five years.

Unpaid cooperation of human to generate knowledge or entertainment predates YouTube by tens of thousands years.

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Gareth321 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> I'm in favour of people making money from their work.

That's completely fair. YouTube offers content creators many ways to do this. For example, they can put content behind a paywall. They can ask for donations. They can ask for memberships. Members get all kinds of fun perks. The part I have an issue with is YouTube advertising an ad free experience with Premium and then allowing content creators to fill their videos with ads.

> YouTube isn't paying people properly

I hope we can both agree that the solution to this is YouTube paying people properly, and not allowing content creators to shit all over viewers. That's pitting the little guys against each other while Google laughs all the way to the bank.

	▲	johnnyanmac an hour ago \| parent [-]
		>I hope we can both agree that the solution to this is YouTube paying people properly The solution is proper competition to google. Because Youtube is pretty much the one true monopoly out there. But as we all know, video hosting alone is very,very, very expensive. It really is something you need to be a billion dollar company to do, and Youtube wasn't profitable until like... 2 years ago? So I tolerate the user ad reads as the best compromise because nothing else would work. I don't think Youtube is a model where Google is being greedy so much as practical. At least not in how it monetizes creators (there's plenty of hostile means they do to creators as is, but the monetary structure seems fine).