YouTube's content claim system is out of control

YouTube has no competition is the issue.

To be fair: You have to have great funding to compete with Youtube.

You essentially need to reimplement the copyright system Youtube already has to not get sued to hell and back once you get more users on. Not to mention all the engineering for the core platform itself. And getting non-shit advertisement to compensate some of those costs. And don't expect to make a profit for the first couple years.

Plus, YouTube as a brand is just to big. The users are already there, so how do you get content to your site for people to watch? That's what killed Google+. It wasn't bad (at first), it just wasn't facebook. You had zero reason to switch, if you already had facebook. And any individual video maker, even those suffering the most from ContentID and false DMCA claims are better off with Youtube than to use a competitor with a thousandth of the userbase and probably sketchy financials.

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