YouTube will share with users

The international economic summit in Davos, Switzerland, hosts not only the heads of government and financial ministries of the world, but also the most successful businessmen, including (and this is no longer surprising) IT workers.

Today there will be at least two articles on Habré about high-profile statements made at the Forum by high-tech business bigwigs, and this article will discuss the announcement of really significant changes in YouTube’s largest video service on the Internet.

Chad Hurley (pictured), one of the lucky founders of YouTube, who sold his Google brainchild very successfully in November, spoke about what the site’s administration is doing to counter the issue of user-generated content on the Web. violations of copyright on the one hand and the contract process with media corporations on the other.

In addition, he noted that in the coming months, YouTube will begin to share advertising profit with the most active users , having duly paid them back for the tens of thousands of visitors who come daily to look at the videos posted by them. Thus, Hurley responded to the numerous reproaches of greed on the part of the Internet community that have been heard here and there recently.

Regarding why YouTube did not pay users from the very beginning, Hurley said (quoted from the Social Web blog ):

We did not want to build a system that would operate on a monetary reward. We really wanted to build an honest [true] community around the video. When you start by distributing money to people from the first day, the people whom you attracted will go to a neighboring provider who pays more. We are now at the stage where we feel we can do it and still have an honest community around the video.

Chad did not disclose the specific details of what the amount of the reward will be and by what mechanism it will be paid.