Comment on Youtube's Anti-adblock is illegal in the EU
lorez@lemm.ee 1 year agoBut piracy has no impact at all. Pirates never wanted to buy your stuff.
that only applies to p2p torrents where there aren’t infrastructure costs, youtube has infrastructure costs.
grabbing a torrent from the net and downloading it doesn’t cost anyone anything, it’s all volunteers providing their bandwidth for it.
youtube’s bandwidth isn’t free.
Another thing: footage provided em by content creators trains their LLM and it’s poorly paid, everybody seems to have a Patreon these days, every creator that wouldn’t be there if there was no money to be made (via said method and those live donations). So the apparent loss of money is more than compensated by the data usefulness. Then ads came. And they were few and it was fine. Then ads became insufferable. My presence there already guarantees creators output content that Google exploits for their AI. What else do I have to pay?
Let’s say I provide them with useful data with what I watch then. They know my age cos I log in and all my other info from Google services. That’s prolly why unblocked ads on the phone or tablet are always on point.
I don’t know, I probably would have paid for at least half the things I pirate if I had to (especially books).
PurplePropagule@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Honestly, there is plenty of stuff I’d pay for but I pirate if it’s difficult to access.