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What always has interested me is that whoever is running it has some sizeable investment. It can't be cheap.
by tel 17y ago
What always has interested me is that whoever is running it has some sizeable investment. It can't be cheap.
- megamark16 17y agoIf they capture every video stream that goes through their servers they must have a TON of raw footage, I'm sure some of it could be spliced together/sold/subscribed to/whatever. Not a pretty business model (at least, I'm assuming there's a low pretty-to-ugly ratio on Chatroulette :-) but probably a functional one.
- orborde 17y agoThat poses a rather large privacy problem. If word gets out that every stream on the site is being recorded, people will feel much less secure in their anonymity on the site and will probably stop doing interesting things with it. This will be even worse if Chatroulette starts publishing streams.
- megamark16 17y agoGood points indeed. From their (very short) TOS; "Everything supplied by the user you are connected with is not property of Chatroulette, and therefore Chatroulette is not responsible for what you will find."
- dabeeeenster 17y agoRecent versions of flash allow for direct video connections...
- tel 17y ago20,000 users all the time with total anonymity and no site-related income and it doesn't matter how you're doing video.