First of all, I am not singling out Paul for ridicule but acknowledging that there are others in similar dilemma that are lashing out in the same directions.

i.e.; Old Ways = Good, New Digital Ways = Evil.

And now for the Evil Twin -- The Problem With the Internet: Consumers Want Culture for Nothing (TCTV)

This author, a self-admitted member of GenerationX, asserts in the video that Amazon and Google are destroying his ability to maintain his living standard. He says that his publishers are challenged to make enough profit in today's digital marketplace to pay him advance cheques to live on while he writes books. Furthermore, Amazon Kindle now distributes books digitally and has caused the sales of the bookstores to plummet.

His conclusions:

1.) The Internet is Evil because he can no longer compete.

2.) Amazon is Lucifer and is forcing Free Market ideals.

3.) He further asserts that free market ideals are extrinsic ideas to European culture and uses the French "culture tax" and the German price fixing of book prices as justifiable countermeasures to this disruptive technology and this invasive marketing to the status quo.

Translated -- my ship is sinking the Internet must die!

This is what you get by being a "late adapter" to new market trends.

Tubes and Amazon have something in common -- they offer the consumer a desired value that is in demand and have turned that commerce into a profitable business model.

There is a substantial difference -- Amazon pays a fairly negotiated price for their content whereas "pirate tube sites" depend on user uploaded content that is without royalties paid and licensed in most cases.

However, tube sites that are licensing content for use now as well as sponsor and content producer/licensee tube sites are here to stay -- deal with it and learn how to profit by it or move on ...