I can't monetize my videos on Youtube because I don't own the material.
But you're fine with monetizing them on your own site, even though you STILL don't own the material.
Don't ever change, man.
I honestly never thought that putting 3 ads on the site would be a problem in the 8 years it's been up; I accurately specified the website & content type before obtaining the ads and have never gotten any sort of TOS warnings for putting these ads on the site in the years that it's been up.
Of course I acknowledge that I don't own the material, and make sure it states so on the site, nor would I make the mistake again of charging memberships for any portion of the site or for the content contained therein. I still figured that 3 ads were harmless to contribute to the bandwidth and hosting upkeep.
I'm not running this site to make a profit; that's why it's gone weeks or months without an update before this month.
I realize that the way I phrased it in response to Jimmy made it sound like that was a priority, but it's not. That was a mistake I made in the past.
It's just a personal preference of mine to want to continue enjoying working on a project I've built from scratch where I completely control every aspect of how these video files are presented, the look of them, don't have to worry about bandwidth limits, and don't have to break my own budget in the long run. The ads this past year covered the costs of the domain & bandwidth plus bought a couple of 16mm game show films to be shared on the site. Anything extra other than the bandwidth / hosting has gone directly to something directly relevant to the site itself.
If the ads are such a problem and so reprehensible after all these years, I'll remove them.
--Jamie