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YouTube now requires creators to have twice as many watch hours to start earning money
techcrunch.com/2026/08/10/youtube-now-requires-creators-to-have-twice-as-many-watch-hours-to-start-earning-money/
Replying to @mrdown@lemmy.world
maybe youtube wants us to switch to torrents.
piracy? yes.
but they(youtube) honestly cant even afford to serve the content and remain profitable.
so…
What do people on you tube have to do with Torrents? Much less paying those people?
peertube
So you are saying the relationship is: we can create torrents to have our peer to peer videos without youtube. Similar to how peertube handles it.
That makes more sense.