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level of Advertising is getting Ridiculous
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NiHaoMike:

--- Quote from: Simon on July 04, 2020, 08:13:51 am ---what like lbry? You also need 100's of GB of space. People are already complaining that lbry fills their hard drives and with 160GB on mine now that I found it I will be trimming back soon. I don't even see my wifi working in upload so doubt I happen to have the same interests as others

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Disk space is cheap nowadays, $20/TB or less. They can also implement automatic seed selection that favors popular content.
Simon:
Yes but we are engineers, not the general public (civilians)
NiHaoMike:

--- Quote from: Simon on July 04, 2020, 02:25:06 pm ---Yes but we are engineers, not the general public (civilians)

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The $20/TB figure was based on deals I have seen for hard drives on PC Part Picker. Connecting it to a Raspberry Pi is just a matter of plugging it in.
Simon:
Yes but you have to actually do this. most people are not interested, they just want to pay for a service and use it, plus it is copyright production so they would need to be sure it won't open up piracy. Just look at lbry.
NiHaoMike:

--- Quote from: Simon on July 04, 2020, 02:43:42 pm ---Yes but you have to actually do this. most people are not interested, they just want to pay for a service and use it, plus it is copyright production so they would need to be sure it won't open up piracy. Just look at lbry.

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Offer an incentive in the form of a little profit (even for those who do not subscribe to the service) or at least a discount off their service and interest will grow a lot - worked for Bitcoin. Steam already uses Bittorrent in the background so there's a way to do it without increasing piracy.

I can even see a workable idea of a very limited "free tier" where users get credit for seeding and can redeem that credit for viewing content.
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