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[–] 0x0@infosec.pub 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I have a hunch Linus at LTT could float his own storage for whatever stuff he wants to host. The same way you and me have to pay for our own online storage.

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[–] Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Hosting is only half the equation you have to be able to serve it people all around the world at once with no buffering. People have no clue how amazing YouTube is for a free service. Bandwidth costs a fuckload of money too to add to the hosting cost.

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[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago

PopcornTime might be a good model for a decentralized YouTube system. You could pick a movie and then it would find a torrent and start downloading it.

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[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Yeah, that would mean everybody pays for hosting videos themselves. The question is: is that a viable strategy / are users willing to put up with that.

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[–] Realitaetsverlust@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 years ago

are users willing to put up with that.

No. People are used to stuff being free.

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