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Back then people also got hit with ludicrous internet bills the moment their site had large scale use and banner ads were the only real path to managing that co
by antiterra 4y ago
Back then people also got hit with ludicrous internet bills the moment their site had large scale use and banner ads were the only real path to managing that cost. Adding a paywall would have created a severe amount of bad will.
- sethammons 4y agoLots of sites just turned off after a given amount of load and you would have to try again later, usually the following day. I think that is an appropriate trade off. It is one reason why mirror sites popped up.
- impossiblefork 4y agoThese days though, that could be solved with things resembling bittorrent for websites etcetera though. I think some fairly complete solutions already exist in the video space, like peertube.
- convolvatron 4y agothe problem isn't that moving bits is too expensive. its that moving bits is _almost_ free. you would think the best model would be each of us ponying up a couple dollars a month to support the whole thing but in the US at least we don't trust anything unless its delivered to us by a long chain of scammers 'innovating'.