Vacas gained prominence online as a top-ranked hunter in World of Warcraft, a video game he has played for more than seven years. He began making YouTube videos last year, mostly of him joking around with other players and commenting on World of Warcraft and other games.

It wasn't long before Machinima, a multichannel YouTube network that specializes in video game content, came calling. The network offered him a partnership: It would put ads on his videos, and he would get a cut of the revenue generated from those ads. It sounded pretty good to Vacas, so he signed a contract with the company in November 2011.

But the devil was in the details: After signing with Machinima, he learned the company would own the rights to whatever content he made for the rest of his life and beyond, "in perpetuity, throughout the universe, in all forms of media now known or hereafter devised." Not only that, but his contract with the network was open-ended. There was no point at which it was set to expire.

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2013-01-10/news/battling-youtube-for-money-and-creative-control/

But as the old saying goes "nothing is free"

more and more newspapers are starting to charge for viewing also. Free Internet may not be long for this earth.

already charging for their services. Asahi being one. You can only look at a few articles and not in full details. For that you have to purchase a subscription.

The YouTube video player is not very good, I frequently have to pause the video and wait for it to buffer because the video loads so slowly, the picture quality is usually not very good either. It is not my internet connection because I can consistently stream from Netflix and a number of other sites and get really high quality picture without any lag, but YouTube videos work fine sometimes and other times they take forever to load. If they improved their video and got some high quality original programming I may consider a subscription, but they need to improve their technology because other sites have much better video players than they do.

Then I say good riddance!

In the meantime, I'm don't to download as many bootleg concert videos from YouTube as much as possible before that website starts asking for money.