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This 1% has been free-riding the YouTube experience. I am part of it. But I know I'm a free-rider, I am not feeling righteous about it.

All those companies are free riding open source specific and humanity in general. Nothing of value is lost.

Google will dissappear. People will install some p2p thing on old laptop stacks, and peer tube will take over. Life finds a way.

who needs Dropbox, am I right?

Mostly the same company's which would abuses p2p for data storage?