^Video on some of the changes.
Damn, this guy has a mad on against Disney. What did he do, got on the blacklist to Disney amusementparks or something.
Well, my thought on this is: IT IS ABOUT !@#$% TIME YOUTUBE DID THIS. You might ask why! Well let me start out with saying that I don't have a youtube account, nor do I go to youtube that often. I think that 99.99999999999999999999999999999999...% of the homemade movies on youtube are crap. I don't want to hear 'thank you messages' or other kind of reactions to videos or news events. There are also many piracy videos. Meaning that episodes of real TV shows are put in crappy quality on youtube for everyone to view. Which results in a lot of lawsuits and copyright cases against youtube. Which cost a lot of money. The ratings system also sucks, because I've seen more than once that talented people get 1 star or lower and crappy homevideos get 4 or higher. Which makes me believe the ratings system can be fixed and corrupted.
It looks to me that in this new setup, youtube is becoming a TV provider, like cable TV. Here in the Netherlands there are some providers of digital TV (Tele2 and Ziggo) who provide this video on demand business and have free available reruns of aired episodes (www. uitzendinggemist.nl, show TV shows of dutch public programs already aired).
With television the problem is that to watch a show you need to be in front of your TV at a certain time or you need to record the show (and hope all goes well). Additionally TV shows are always competing for the prime time slots, resulting that some really good shows get low ratings and get canceled and crappy shows get high ratings.
In the new setup the television and music companies get there own channel to put the shows and music on in high quality for people to come and watch, whenever they want and have the time. Additionally, people like me don't need to get run over by a stampede of crappy homevideos, that we don't even want to know they even exist. You might say, "But talented people don't get viewed anymore.". Well I wouldn't be surprised if television and movie companies have a small department of people going through all the youtube homevideos looking for copyright infringement and new talents.
I would say youtube go ahead and make my day and I'll be smiling like this: