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Originally Posted by $5 submissions
Similar logic to Karl Marx' 'historical dialectic': slave societies couldn't stop monarchies, monarchies couldn't stop capitalists, capitalists couldn't stop the Communist future.
Oh wait.... 
Just messing with you, Lenny. I get your point  On the whole, you're right. It's the evolution of promotional strategies on the Internet. No one can really control the push-pull factors of content availability, social sharing, and technology. The key is to monetize it regardless of how it evolves. |
The arguments that are being used against tubes are the exact same ones that were used against all of the other forms of free sites I mentioned earlier.
"Theft" seems to be the watchword with tubes, but this "theft" has existed on free sites from the beginning, it's just easier to spot now because tubes are so much easier to surf and see what content they have.
Plus I guess you couldn't really blame the link list owner or TGP owner if a site/gallery submitter was using stolen content, even if they knew the content was stolen and looked the other way, whereas the tube owner is hosting the content himself.
Other than that distinction the only difference really is the amount of content being given away for free. The reason free content was limited in the past though, was the expense of bandwidth, not the morals or business sense of free site owners.
$5/mbit bandwidth vs $150/mbit bandwidth is why people are giving away 30 minute movies instead of 10 crappy pics.
