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Nevertheless there are a ton of very high quality, and seemingly successful, streamed-prerecorded pirate video sites these past few years, and One might assume
by xkcd-sucks 3y ago
Nevertheless there are a ton of very high quality, and seemingly successful, streamed-prerecorded pirate video sites these past few years, and One might assume their users be more adblocky than google's users.
Oh and also porn sites I guess, and what's the advertising worth there vs on youtube
- Valodim 3y agoContent rights are a big part of the cost, and criminal enterprises won't attract too many original content creators I'd wager.
- Wowfunhappy 3y agoThe difference is that people upload 500 hours of video[1] to Youtube every minute. I honestly can't even fathom how much data that is. 1: https://www.statista.com/statistics/259477/hours-of-video-uploaded-to-youtube-every-minute/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/259477/hours-of-video-up...
- xg15 3y agoOk, and why should I as a user care about this? No one asked youtube to become a monopoly and I don't exactly have much compassion for the engineering woes that come with this. I'd be perfectly fine with an upload cap if that reduces the hosting cost in any way. But of course that would be against the "groth at any cost" mantra.
- Wowfunhappy 3y agoYou don't have to "care", but I think this is a huge reason (in addition to the network effect) that people continue to use Youtube. Where else can you store an unlimited amount of video for free, for approximately forever?
- copperx 3y agoAre those pirate video sites P2P? Or how do they work?