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35 sats \ 3 replies \ @Turdinthepunchbowl 1 Jul \ on: Embrace Piracy, Kill YouTube: A Decentralized Video Protocol bitcoin
Maybe I'm not thinking about this correctly.
Just rip all your DVDs (if you are old enough to have a stash) and set up a Plex media server. Get a local library card and many have DVDs for rent. Rip them and add them to your own library to stream on your own devices. No need to share. You could provide access to your server, though that may violate terms of service for Plex. Jellyfin or Emby I think are open source and Id be surprised if they police sharing of content/selling access as much as Plex but I don't use them. Then use tools like meTube to gather YouTube vids which rips out the ads. Add them to the same server. It's not as challenging to build and host your own media and cancel streaming subscriptions as one might think.
Could probably then do set up P2P lightning payments and access if you are inclined. Or if you make an individual library for each piece of media, you then create a marketplace where individual hosts can list available content and set prices, and the "order" is routed. No downloading, but free decentralized P2P streaming on an individual piece of media basis.
This is a half assed idea literally written from the shitter at work and I have 2 mins before my next meeting. But maybe I'll ponder on it more later.
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Well it's about completely changing the incentives to “fix” those platforms. Something similar to what SN tries to do.
Currently YouTube videos are designed to be more than 10 minutes so that they can fit more ads. And most videos embed some kind of paid promotion on top of that.
The whole platform is designed to maximize the time you spend on it. It's not designed to maximize the value provided to the user. Or to make short and to the point useful videos. It's designed to maximize ad revenue.
Would be great to turn things around.
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I think it would be interesting if people could just host their own media servers (decentralized) and use a marketplace to sell temporary access to it. It's the platform incentives that lead to the 10+ minute videos and embedded ad reads. I haven't used Rumble, but I assume it's likely got similar incentives to YouTube in that way, could be wrong. I imagine the fact that if there is no centralized hosting service and the content is on each creator or curator's server it maybe potentially shifts the burden of managing/risking DCMA violations to the host? Like I could host a library of content only I either created or pirated that I wish to risk/share and charge per stream. If a bunch of people did that, you could have a nice little platform front end that routed content P2P? Wouldn't it also be harder for those media companies to figure out potentially where the user and hosts connect and serve violation notices? I know little of what I speak, and even less of how to explain a coherent thought haha. I simply host a media server at my house for my own personal use, but I know I can grant people like family/friends in other houses access to stream off my server. I imagine there has got to be a way to do that in mass across many users. Like torrents, but for streams.