Comment on What's stopping youtube from just going full authoritarian and mandate DRM for all their videos in attempt to prevent people from downloading it or block ads?

ace_garp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• glimse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Vimeo is a video hosting platform but it isn’t anywhere near YouTube replacement. It would be such a massive shift in their business model that trying to make it one would result a second dead site

  There is no algorithm and search function, I don’t even think there’s a notification feature. Vimeo is mostly for artists to upload to and manually send the link

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  • HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It is worse in that Vimeo makes money by charging creators to host their content instead of YouTube’s model of it being free or a way to make money.

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    • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Didn’t even think of that but yeah true. They aim for quality over quantity and it should stay that way

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  • ace_garp@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Things change, and full DRM would hasten that change. YT is a platform, they don’t own the content.

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    • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That doesn’t really have any impact on my point. They’re similar in a few ways but it’s like suggesting Wikipedia becomes an IMDB replacement, it would completely change the brand

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