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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Isn't their issue more hosting costs and not production costs? Unless they start telling people they can't upload videos (exception being copyright of course) Youtube greatly outpaces the storage costs of other social media sites.

They probably still store more than other video-hosting sites too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

their problem is probably paying $2 billion a year or some crazy number for nfl football.