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Break.com, a video sharing site similar to YouTube, announced yesterday that it will pay $400 for user-generated videos and as much as $2000 for animated shorts. When Break launched last year they offered $50 per video and later raised that to $250 before yesterday’s increase to $400. With Google backing the massively popular YouTube, competitors have increasingly turned to paying contributers in an effort to lure them away from YouTube. Metacafe launched a similar program called “producer rewards” earlier this year.