When you make a product from which you gain money, you're a professional. As such, you need to follow the rules. These guys were not following any rules.
If this was a "formal", "traditional" movie set, make sure the street would have been closed, the car driven by an expert, working shifts respected, to grant some margin of safety.
But, that is expensive, it is another market.
So, yes, YouTube is partially to blame. With revenue sharing, it creates a sub-market and makes everybody a professional in the movie industry, without requiring any respect for any existing rules. The only rules they enforce are censoring content that they think is not suitable for their monetization purposes.
Instead, channels like those ones should be censored immediately because they put the life of people in danger for money. The fact that these channels work economically, is just because they do what they do in blatant violation of rules and unfair competition with those who have to respect those rules.
When you make a product from which you gain money, you're a professional. As such, you need to follow the rules. These guys were not following any rules.
If this was a "formal", "traditional" movie set, make sure the street would have been closed, the car driven by an expert, working shifts respected, to grant some margin of safety.
But, that is expensive, it is another market.
So, yes, YouTube is partially to blame. With revenue sharing, it creates a sub-market and makes everybody a professional in the movie industry, without requiring any respect for any existing rules. The only rules they enforce are censoring content that they think is not suitable for their monetization purposes.
Instead, channels like those ones should be censored immediately because they put the life of people in danger for money. The fact that these channels work economically, is just because they do what they do in blatant violation of rules and unfair competition with those who have to respect those rules.
Fair point