Comment Re:Read more of his blog, good sir (Score 2, Insightful) 251
people, being so used to FREE content, will feel outraged by the concept of being charged to distributed their mundane crap videos online.
Charging a small fee to upload videos is the key to improving YouTube. The reason people upload so many "mundane crap videos" is because there is not a fee. People who are proud of good work would be willing to pay a buck or two to upload their video. The people that upload their friend burping would hesitate to waste money their money. I'm sure you would still have some bad videos uploaded. Maybe google could use the money from bad videos to give small rebates to people with good videos.
Charging a small fee to upload videos is the key to improving YouTube. The reason people upload so many "mundane crap videos" is because there is not a fee. People who are proud of good work would be willing to pay a buck or two to upload their video. The people that upload their friend burping would hesitate to waste money their money. I'm sure you would still have some bad videos uploaded. Maybe google could use the money from bad videos to give small rebates to people with good videos.