Do you think filehosting will ever go back to normal like before?

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^^excuse me sir, but if you upload an "illegal" video on youtube, you can get much people watching that video.. this mean. youtube will pay you with the ads thing... a lot of people are doing it..

Of course you can find infringing videos on any video service that allows user-generated content. But the defining difference that you're so conveniently avoiding is that YouTube does not exist for the sole purpose of promoting piracy. YouTube is the most legitimate channel of media distribution out there, next to iTunes, Amazon and Hulu. YouTube has massive distribution deals with major television networks.

People go to YouTube to watch NatGeo, or Ray William Johnson, or Philip DeFranco. People go to Rapidshare to download the latest full-length pirated FTV Girls video. Nobody goes to Rapidshare to upload videos of their kids to send to Grandma. Nobody's distributing links to family videos on the forums so they can get paid $30 per 1000 downloads. Nobody's getting paid hundreds of dollars for uploading that great video of Uncle Frank's 80th birthday party. See where I'm going with this? YouTube is the last place on the internet I'd go to download that cool movie that just hit the theaters yesterday.

Let's not forget the P4P business-model revolves not simply around ad revenue (although that's part of it), it is fueled almost entirely by you receiving a $30 compensation for 1000 downloads, or getting paid a certain guaranteed rate for certain in-demand movies and software. We're talking about immediate gratification, versus delayed gratification.

If you guys were in this for the ad revenue sharing, you'd be YouTube Partners or bloggers... not pirates.

Comparing YouTube to file lockers is just ridiculous.