Originally posted by TheAssociate
I wonder if or how this will affect this site. This is a for-profit website, but it isn't the owners embedding the videos. Either way, this is a
disturbing development and there's no doubt that soon there will be more and more regulations on the way people can 'use' Youtube (and other)
videos. Hope this gets worked out in our favor.
If this does go global then all sites are affected, regardless if the site owner embed's or not. The moment your allowing such content to be
displayed then your are indirectly embedding and due to advertising running through the site you are in fact drawing unique hits thus increasing
profits on your ads due to traffic.
Conclusion,
At some point everyone who embed's on a site will be asked to make a "donation"
P.S.
Similar to disallow threads to continue as they are deemed as a negative attraction point. As previous models have shown, when allowing topics of a
particular nature to flourish they eventually create negative growth causing a downtown on attendance=clicks=unique=re-visits. I guess you get the
point now.