Or maybe instead of crying and groveling at Google's feet we could get up in arms and create a better platform.

But, oh, we can't make it a centralized platform because then we'd have to replicate something similar to Youtube's copyright system to avoid getting litigated to death by media companies.

So how about a federated or fully distributed platform? That could work... except it couldn't use regular payment processors because they will block payments.

I seriously believe cryptocurrencies were the final piece to this puzzle. Maybe we'll see a resurrection of cryptocurrencies in 5 to 10 years, like the one the internet had after the dotcom bubble.