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No, the logistic problem Google "solved" in making YouTube functional and free was born from a time when dumptrucks of VC money made it viable. It will never happen again, regardless of innovation.
This is not a technical problem, and in the case of the YT monopoly, it's beyond even a people problem. Google got the money, and google won. It will be very difficult to unseat them.