A clip I posted from 9½ Weeks, the “riding crop scene” ending with the “power is a turn on” image, has reached the popularity threshold necessary for me to enable revenue sharing on it (in “just” a year and a half!):

I’m leaning towards not doing so: I didn’t make the film, and I didn’t encode it digitally. All I did was cut out a good bit with some open source video editing software and put it up on YouTube. It doesn’t seem fair for me to pimp it.

Plus, I imagine that enabling revenue sharing will trigger a copyright review, and I’d rather keep that sexy beast in the collective viewing rotation. Waving a red flag at the MPAA’s bull-lawyers doesn’t seem like a good way to accomplish that.

Lesson learned: YouTube likes BDSM. Make your own and you can get paid for it!