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Just as significant (and I suppose still pending) is whether YouTube has re-monetized the video. Systems fail and shit happens, and I'm glad to see that this was quickly un-struck, but it's not all the way corrected until he's making his $.0003 per view or whatever the payout is.
The thing about public domain is that anyone can do whatever they want. Youtube is still providing a service by providing storage, cpu and network to be able to stream the video and they are within their rights to charge for that service one way or another. Of course anyone can also offer that same service for free as it's public domain.
Free as in freedom, not free beer.
Yeah you can go out and buy a copy of Shakespeare’s work, it’s just that you can also go out and publish some too
Of course YouTube should be able to put ads on it. That’s public domain. You can do with it whatever you want.
Start reading, please:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain_in_the_United_States
YouTube should not be able to put ads on content they make available for you?
Tell me, in your world, who pays for the low latency, high bandwidth, high availability streaming platform you consume video on?
You can't argue with some of these anti-corporation people. I dislike greedy CEOs and shareholders as much as the next guy but a company hosting and streaming videos need some sort of revenue to keep those servers running.
They should be allowed to try to put ads on, and I should be allowed to try and block them.