[DiogenesLamp]

To compete with Google/YouTube, you would need half a trillion dollars to set up the infrastructure and buy into the market.

And that's if they didn't do everything in their power to stop you, which they would.

[palmer]

To compete with Google/YouTube, you would need half a trillion dollars to set up the infrastructure and buy into the market.

That's not even close. A couple hundred bucks a month would fund enough bandwidth to get an audience of thousands. From there you could sell your own ads and pay for expansion into the millions.