you tube to charge to view

[Amaterasu]

People, read carefully and then re-read it; Amy, you made your vid awhile back to get your points out; your work on TAP is a good example of what is available; do videos on Tap, say 10 minutes at a time, then charge .99 a month to subscribe to them; if you do good vids and people are interested enough in your ideas, then that token .99 cents to watch them won't cause them to bat an  eye and put coins in your purse...

if you so choose; or you can post them for free and not make anything...

money can be a good thing, making money can be, too; if you don't abuse others to acquire it...


seeker

Though the greed side - or more to the point, the OMG I have to play the game side - is very tempting...and may win out if I can get a cameraPerson with a camera again...there is a part of Me that stands aghast at the thought of asking People to pay for a gift I would give Them, and one that is getting rid of the very thing I am asking - exchange to survive - to boot!

If the cameraPerson and camera willing to perform in that capacity should again cross My path, I will likely go that route.  For Thor's sake.  [smile]

[deuem]

Right now most instructional videos are free of charge and the ads pay the bill. Now all of these people will try and charge and the free aspect goes out the window. Yea great if you want to try and make money. You can also open your own web site to do that.
 
The entire idea of UT was that it was to be free. free to the viewers. So now it is going the way of cable TV & Digital TV.
 
There was once a time with cable TV, where there were no ads. Everyone jumped on it. You could watch a movie straight through and never have a break. Once everyone turned to cable they had you and changed the rules. Same with digital TV.  Now we start off paying and then they make us pay again within.
 
UT swore it would be a free site when it first started. If you wanted to make money you would have to go somewhere else.
 
If you make good videos it will be a cash cow. If your low on cash and need that info you will have to go somewhere else.
I am not sorry, they are going for the buck and forgeting the past. Everysingle video on UT should be free. If they want to start another site like $tube then go ahead. Cashtube could then have what ever they want. All videos would need to be paid for.
 
What does this do for linked videos. Will there be a commision fee paid to Z if a $tube is posted? I guess $tubes won't be able to be linked. Like my digital TV, they put a second cost on every single movie that is good, even if it is 50 years old. When I got it they said movies were free. Yea about 25% are free, all the junk. So they all found a second way to make money once they got you.
 
I stand against UT selling videos, They should create a paid site.
 
Deuem