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		charonn0 on June 17, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: YouTube to block indie labels who don't sign up to... Is Youtube actually profitable?

bsder on June 17, 2014 [–]

Probably not without all the subsidy that YouTube gets via Google's scale of internet bandwidth and integration of ads.

I suspect that's why sites like Nico Nico (http://www.nicovideo.jp/) try to overlay as much to YouTube as possible.

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