IanKelley - 7:02 pm on Oct 1, 2009 (gmt 0)

If your site is too big for you to handle ..you either get some help and prefilter everything ..or you dont run it ..period ..

That's an understandable point but it eliminates so many of the services, present and future, that define the internet.

YouTube is a perfect example, last I heard it's still not making a profit even without having to pay an army of reviewers. It's essentially a community service subsidized by a corporation.

According to a blog post earlier this month:

In mid-2007, six hours of video were uploaded to YouTube every minute. Then it grew to eight hours per minute, then 10, then 13. In January of this year, it became 15 hours of video uploaded every minute, the equivalent of Hollywood releasing over 86,000 new full-length movies into theaters each week. Now, 20 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute...

[youtube-global.blogspot.com...]

So at 28800 hours of video uploaded per day they would need to hire 3600 full time reviewers to keep up. At a conservative estimate they would have to more than double that by the end of 09.

Even then, apparently, they could still be prosecuted for any video the reviewers failed to catch.

In the end video sharing can't exist at all. In Italy at any rate.