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It isn't relevant that they didn't use MPEG. What they build was a great platform to browse what content is available that can handle the enormous amount of tra
by danw 18y ago
It isn't relevant that they didn't use MPEG. What they build was a great platform to browse what content is available that can handle the enormous amount of traffic they receive. That wouldn't change if they offered the video in a different format.
- gaius 18y agoOf course it would! Streaming their at all was a very poor technical decision. The very obvious technical and economic solution would be self-contained files shared over BitTorrent. This was and is a pointless waste on the scale of pets.com. The difference being it's not just sucker VCs money, it's every taxpayer's.