Google describes YouTube Red as "the ultimate YouTube experience." The $9.99 subscription will cover all of YouTube products, meaning YouTube, YouTube Gaming, YouTube Kids, and the newly announced YouTube Music. The new service will let you watch YouTube videos without ads, save videos to watch offline on a mobile device, and play videos in the background on a mobile device.
There is a big catch about that $9.99 price: $9.99 will cover Android, desktop, and the mobile Web, but if you purchase a subscription via Apple's in-app purchasing on iOS, the price goes up to $12.99/month. Apple takes a 30 percent cut of all subscription revenue on its platform, and Google is passing that cost directly onto the consumer. (Most likely, customers will be able to bypass the higher price by paying $9.99 directly to Google and using the service across all platforms, including iOS, simply by signing into the app.)
YouTube won't talk about revenue sharing with content creators, but the company says it will pass on the "majority" of the revenue. In lieu of ad revenue, subscription revenue will be split up among creators by view time from Red subscribers. The subscription service changes things for YouTube creators, and anyone that doesn't agree to the new subscription terms will have their content set to "private" on YouTube.
darkfeline suggests the following specific points and topics for discussion:
1. iOS support costs extra, YouTube is passing the cost of Apple's cut directly to the consumer.
2. Up-to-date ad blockers and youtube-dl bypasses all YouTube ads to the best of my knowledge.
3. youtube-dl allows you to download videos for offline play.
4. How do you feel about exclusive paid content?
5. Who the heck is Pewdiepie and why does he make so much money? (How do you feel about YouTube "celebrities"?)
(Score: 2) by edIII on Friday October 23 2015, @08:35PM
Libraries are *also* pushing the envelope with supporting TOR. Of course the FBI/NSA whined like little entitled self-righteous bitches that libraries were now helping facilitate pedophilia, terrorism, human trafficking, and the bruising of fruit everywhere. Thankfully, the librarians took a second to deliberate, and then put the TOR connections right back up.
I'm very much interested in supporting libraries now. I like the cut of their jib, so to speak.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 23 2015, @09:10PM
You've built quite an impressive mountain out of the molehill of one small library.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Saturday October 24 2015, @12:54AM
Mountain out of a molehill? What's your definition of "Pilot Program"? Everything starts somewhere, and the initial library participating didn't exactly originate the idea...
Library Freedom Project [libraryfreedomproject.org] "You can even see the implied phases in the link URL"
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.