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Originally posted by Mike91
And thus begins the decline of YouTube as it's been free for too long now to just start charging people for it.
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Well Youtube will still be free. The subscription will just be for ad-less browsing, plus certain videos will be paid only. I imagine it will most likely just be "exclusive/premium" vevo content or something along those lines. Most videos will probably remain free and ad-supported because that's the best way to maximize viewership.
Considering Youtube's general populace, I don't expect most of them would be ok with having to pay to watch videos anyway. So content providers will most certainly keep their content free/ad-supported for the foreseeable future.