YouTube's Easy Fix

There's so much talk about whether YouTube can contribute serious revenue to Google's bottom line because they don't right now have the right to put ads on content they haven't licensed. That seems easy enough to fix: Make the right to show ads part of the uploading agreement for the average user.  Offer a rev-share to sweeten the deal for anyone getting over a certain number of views.

No? What' the flaw in this argument.

Something Odd at YouTube

Not sure what's going on but right now I've clicked on three videos from the YouTube homepage, and they all click through to a video of Rick Astley singing "Never Gonna Give You Up." (I'd rather be watching the banana-eating bunny, but that's not working.)