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I've been toying with the idea of offering dedicated, managed Owncast hosting but had not considered HNers as a potentially interested community. The comments o
by throwaway399401 6y ago
I've been toying with the idea of offering dedicated, managed Owncast hosting but had not considered HNers as a potentially interested community. The comments on this submission have convinced me otherwise!
If you would be interested, please drop me a way to get in touch with you:
https://forms.gle/2KiR87rRdC4PSoCd6 https://forms.gle/2KiR87rRdC4PSoCd6
(throwaway because I have currently have a day job that is emphatically not keen about side projects)
- corobo 6y agoI can't help but read this as "I've noticed I could make money off other peoples work"
- yokem55 6y agoThe issue here is if you are handling the hosting of these sites, you are the one to get and handle the DMCA mail when (and it's an inevitable when) your customers do something that runs afoul of the contemporary copyright process. Might want to approach it instead as a consulting service that helps folks set it up on hosting that they are responsible for and have their names on.
- hedora 6y agoThe DMCA provides some legal protections to content creators that aren’t available via self hosting. Legal consulting to set up the correct corporate shell structure would probably also be a popular value add.
- throwaway399401 6y agoCan you elaborate on this? Do you mean that if I, as a streamer, set up my own entity (LLC or whatever), I would have more leeway in responding to DMCA complaints, even if I ran my stream on something like EC2 or a typical "dedicated server" or colo?
- hedora 6y agoNo idea. That’s why I’m suggesting someone offer a service with lawyers to answer these questions. :-)