• TheDankHold@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I get that we all think entertainment products should be free but in a capitalist economy server space costs money. To deliver and maintain petabytes of data takes vast resources and in our society, those resources cost money. They keep it running through direct payment or auctioning ad space. So if you don’t want to get premium then they still need to pay for the upkeep of the service you’re using for free. Thus ads.

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      1 year ago

      I can’t speak for everyone, but I’d be happy to share the burden of seeding these videos, if they’d stop threatening us over it.

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        1 year ago

        This sounds like a concept that’s better in theory than practice.

        I can’t imagine this being nearly as stable and high quality with minimal downtime

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          There’s already a bunch of platforms running like this for years. None of them are legal but stuff like the descendants of Popcorn Time keep vast libraries of high quality video files available through just p2p networks

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            1 year ago

            From my experience none of them are nearly as fast and reliable as YouTube or other streaming services

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      1 year ago

      The problem is that when you pay them they still track you and still sell your data.

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      People already pay, with data and watching ads, they are pushing for montly revenue making the costumers angry with abusive ads. Youtube is not some poor beggar it is a company who seek never ending profit. They will punish the weak link, who can’t do something about, they could just increasce ad price, but the announcers can push back so it’s a no go.