I'm sure totlol.com is a nice site and all but ...
The guy's making money showing clips that are hosted somewhere else without reimbursing the people that actually pay for the streaming bandwidth.
The people that do pay for the bandwidth, ie YouTube/Google, notice what he's doing and change their terms and conditions to reflect what has been their intent all along, namely that ordinary consumers can use their API and what have you to build mini sites on which they can show a selection of clips to a small group of friends, but that rules out the egregious freeloading this guy was planning to do.
So the story here isn't that this guy was cheated, it's that Google/YouTube were naive enough to think that if they provided all their bandwidth for free no one would take advantage of that and that now, possibly thanks to totlol.com, they've learned.
Not really, if Google/YouTube wanted to, they would put ads on embedded videos, just as they do on YouTube (I don't think I've seen ads on embedded videos).
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I'm sure totlol.com is a nice site and all but ...
The guy's making money showing clips that are hosted somewhere else without reimbursing the people that actually pay for the streaming bandwidth.
The people that do pay for the bandwidth, ie YouTube/Google, notice what he's doing and change their terms and conditions to reflect what has been their intent all along, namely that ordinary consumers can use their API and what have you to build mini sites on which they can show a selection of clips to a small group of friends, but that rules out the egregious freeloading this guy was planning to do.
So the story here isn't that this guy was cheated, it's that Google/YouTube were naive enough to think that if they provided all their bandwidth for free no one would take advantage of that and that now, possibly thanks to totlol.com, they've learned.
Not really, if Google/YouTube wanted to, they would put ads on embedded videos, just as they do on YouTube (I don't think I've seen ads on embedded videos).