Comments on: YouTube Will Start Charging for Some Videos

By: Mr Skepticles

Mr Skepticles — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:47:12 +0000

I’ll wait for it to come on TV.

By: Lady Claire

Lady Claire — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 01:21:08 +0000

I totally agree with Matt Moog – I’ll always pick watching a film at the cinema over the internet any day. The cinema & all that goes with it is lovely. Watching internet stuff, esp a film on YouTube is not the best viewing experience in the world. It’s ok for a few minutes or for just a short prog, but a film you’ve paid for? No thanks. But conversely, I can understand why this is happening though. Knew it was just a matter of time.

LC x

By: Malcolm

Malcolm — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 01:15:37 +0000

They’d be better off having a donate button. People won’t pay for stuff like that, especially if it’s by an unknown. If YouTube goes premium, people will vote with their feet and go somewhere else where they don’t have to pay.

By: Bren

Bren — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:24:21 +0000

All those films sound lousy, though…

By: Choc

Choc — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 19:57:11 +0000

I have played some youtube vids where the sound goes out of sinc in less the 8 minutes! how they think they will get entire films to work I don’t know.

By: roz

roz — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 14:23:59 +0000

gee, what a surprise. considering how much money they’ve been hemorrhagingy, what took em so long? :/

By: _JonBaxter_

_JonBaxter_ — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 14:00:55 +0000

Great way to lose users; if it costs on you tube it’s free somewhere else.

By: Raymond

Raymond — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 13:47:03 +0000

Well I think this should be an option. I can indeed imagine that in-depended filmmakers (and some of them make great films which hollywood doesn’t see a market in) to turn some profit for their next project is a good thing.

Otherwise these arthouse movies will hardly ever be released and eventually not made. Nothing wrong with Hollywood blockbusters but I like some good indepth movies with intelligent dialog once in a while as well.

As an option okay to pay for all youtube content well… no….
To pay for news articles uhmmm no…. Then I watch the tele to get the news.

There’s a place for both free content (this is what the internet is about) and commercial but not solely commercial that would go against the foundation of the nets vision to share information for free with everyone who wants it.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 11:30:36 +0000

I don’t mind the idea of helping independent film makers and paying to watch their films on youtube, but if this is a success they might start wanting to charge for other things too, and I think that would really start to ruin the whole point of youtube- that anyone can make a video and anyone can watch them.

By: Jan Stark

Jan Stark — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 10:35:29 +0000

That’s not how the internet works. We’ll just have to google the movie and watch it on the next best video site (usually myvideo or vimeo). Paying for theoretical content or memberships to sites on the internet is ridiculous.