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There was a feature on Amazon Web Services for a while, and I wish it was still there... Downloader pays. I make some content and upload it. When you want to

There was a feature on Amazon Web Services for a while, and I wish it was still there... Downloader pays. I make some content and upload it. When you want to download it, you pay Amazon the egress fees. And maybe I get to charge just a bit more, to help me with the Ingress, storage, content creation, etc. I mean, I know that there's going to be problems with rate limiting, etc. And yes, we have those problems with LLM tokens today. But this just feels like such a useful thing that it baffles me that it doesn't exist already.

mitxela 12d ago
Note the Amazon egress fee is one hundred times anywhere sane's egress fee.
- MattCruikshank 12d ago
  My desired usage pattern stands... Someone who publishes content shouldn't be punished for everyone else wanting to access it, and shouldn't have to resort to product placement, advertising, sponsorship, or begging to fund it. I don't know, maybe WebTorrent should have been the answer? For upcoming, viral content? But for the deep archives, like the Wayback Machine? I feel like I'd happily pay for egress, and a bit to support them. If it was automatic and built in... I wish Flattr or something like it had thrived...
  - mitxela 12d ago
    There was MegaUpload. It got shut down because it was used almost exclusively for piracy.