TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoFive Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combinedvariety.comexternal-linkmessage-square121fedilinkarrow-up122arrow-down10cross-posted to: aboringdystopia@lemmy.worldpiracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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minus-squarekakes@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoLove how they make this sound like some incredible feat. When you aren’t bound to license agreements, turns out it’s actually very easy to have a “massive” content library. Literally the only hurdle is storage space.
minus-squareWrench@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 months agoI mean, distributing it isn’t a small feat. Plus you need to manage subscriptions, billings, CMS, a front end to navigate the content, etc. That’s no small amount of work, even if they used out of the box solutions for many layers.
minus-squareripcord@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoDepends how many users. But yeah a lot.
minus-squareiopq@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoBoth Wikipedia and Stack Overflow just have a few dozen fast servers despite being some of the world’s highest trafficked websites
minus-squarecalcopiritus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoThe entire content of the wikipedia fits in a pen drive. Streaming video is a lot more expensive than text and images.
minus-squareIrelephant@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoThat is just the text content, Wikipedia has pictures and videos as well. Not to mention the other Wikimedia projects
minus-squarecalcopiritus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·5 months agoI doubt Wikimedia streams even 0.1% of what netflix does.
Love how they make this sound like some incredible feat. When you aren’t bound to license agreements, turns out it’s actually very easy to have a “massive” content library. Literally the only hurdle is storage space.
I mean, distributing it isn’t a small feat. Plus you need to manage subscriptions, billings, CMS, a front end to navigate the content, etc.
That’s no small amount of work, even if they used out of the box solutions for many layers.
5 people could do it though.
Depends how many users.
But yeah a lot.
Both Wikipedia and Stack Overflow just have a few dozen fast servers despite being some of the world’s highest trafficked websites
The entire content of the wikipedia fits in a pen drive.
Streaming video is a lot more expensive than text and images.
That is just the text content, Wikipedia has pictures and videos as well. Not to mention the other Wikimedia projects
I doubt Wikimedia streams even 0.1% of what netflix does.