YouTube will share with users

The international economic summit in Davos, Switzerland, hosts not only the heads of government and finance ministries of the world, but also the most successful businessmen, including (and this has not been surprising for a long time) working in the field of IT.

Today at Habré there will be at least two articles about high-profile statements made at the Forum by high-tech business tycoons, and this one will focus on the announcement of actually significant changes in the largest Internet video service YouTube.

Chad Hurley (in the photo), one of the lucky founders of YouTube, who very successfully sold their offspring to Google in November, during a session on user-generated content on the Web, spoke about what the site’s administration is doing copyright infringements on the one hand and contractual arrangements with media corporations on the other.
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In addition, he noted that in the coming months, YouTube will begin to share advertising revenue with the most active users , paying tribute to them for the tens of thousands of visitors who daily come to look at the videos they posted. Thus, Hurley responded to the numerous accusations of greed on the part of the Internet public, which have been heard here and there recently.

Regarding why YouTube didn’t pay users from the start, Hurley said (we quote from the Social Web blog) the following:

We did not want to build a system that would act on monetary rewards. We really wanted to build an honest [true] community around the video. When you start distributing money to people from the first day whose people you attracted, they will go to a nearby provider who pays more. We are now at the stage when we feel that we can do this and still have an honest community around the video.

Specific details about what will be the amount of remuneration and by what mechanism it will be paid, Chad did not disclose.