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YouTube is trying to clean itself up by making it much harder for small video makers to make money

The world's largest video site will kick thousands of people out of its ad revenue-sharing program, and will make it much harder for new ones to get into the program. 

The change, which goes into effect today, is one of YouTube's responses to a year of criticism it has generated for a series of scandals involving questionable and offensive content that has appeared on the site.

DYI:  Total BS article, IMHO YouTube is pushing out the small guy to make way for the Main Stream Media takeover as they transition from cable/satellite.  This accomplishes two objectives: the first is reduce and remove competition for their products and second flood the digital sphere with propaganda.

DYI