Now playing on YouTube: Clips with ads

After years of regarding pirated video on YouTube as a threat, some major media companies are starting to treat it instead as an advertising opportunity.
(From The New York Times)

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[pmbx]

I'm tired of everyone trying to squeeze every dime out of every corner of the internet! This is an example of the sheer madness of this thinking. As soon as I heard some time ago that ads were going to be introduced on YouTube, I pulled the few clips I had there, and stopped going to the site. I encourage everyone who is tired of ads like this, which I call front door spam, to join me in boycotting YouTube and other sites like it that make money off our free speech activities.

[Sithembewena]

yadda yadda yadda...people like you amaze me. you just want to go on some site and watch/ upload stuff for hours on end for free, then you complain when they try ways to create revenue? sites like youtube have expenses if you didn't know, so get over your vigilante outcries. or share your videos by email and spare us.

[wedding-planning]

Once the public first accepted ads on info sites and generally accepted being spammed to death by ads, the writing was already on the wall. Every corner of the planet will be strung with ads, and Youtube.com is no exception.

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[askgees]

Lets face it. The rich and powerful have no spine. They would sell their own children. The only thing they care about is the cash but they really want you think they care about the product. Please. Nothing more than a group of rich Jews. To bad Hitler didn't get a hold of them.