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by nathanyz 8y ago
Right, YouTube buys and sells human attention. I imagine they did a cost/benefit analysis and feel like this change is a net positive for that business. If users were paying for video hosting with specific features, then legacy support
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by nathanyz 8y ago
Fair point on that video. We recently changed some internal settings and it looks like that is a good example where we may need to better tune. I appreciate the feedback as it helps us see things we would have missed
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by nathanyz 8y ago
Exactly, video hosting can be a viable business. Full disclosure, I am co-founder of Swarmify where this is our business. We provide paid video hosting at affordable prices very similarly to paid web hosting.
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Why media companies lose 52% of video ad revenue(swarmify.blogspot.com)
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WTF Video Ads??: How bad video ads ruin your end user experience(swarmify.blogspot.com)
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by nathanyz 12y ago
It is actually pretty unlikely that they won't sell goods in the US. Burger King is not going to pull out as that is a major market for them. Not saying the US tax situation doesn't need fixed though.
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by nathanyz 12y ago
That is actually the basis of our startup is that we can solve the congestion problem by swarming with other video viewers to require less downstream bandwidth usage
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by nathanyz 12y ago
Trust me, Verizon wants nothing of this sort. They would literally throw a fit if suddenly Netflix customers were pushing out as much bandwidth as they pull in.
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by nathanyz 12y ago
Yep this is exactly the fast lane that we don't want. The lane is not any faster, just less traffic, says Verizon--really, that seems like a fast lane to me.
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Show HN: Swarmify – Plugin Free P2P Content Delivery Network(swarmify.com)
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