Thanks for the insight. I have my own fascinations and it’s nice to get a better perspective on why people have their fascinations. This is really helpful.
Sure they could, but you are a a bit more anonymous and don’t keeps logs, then there may be nothing to hand over.
Hosting your own vps directly ties internet traffic to you. They can see your ip is part of a swarm and see who owns it. If it’s owned by some guy, they can press you. If it’s owned by a company with a legal team, it’s much more difficult.
I agree that compression has advanced steadily. I’m really referring to a break though. Something that gets 1080 videos down to 100mb.
But more realistically, I think storage is where we need to look. If I can get a 100tb ssd for not too much, then I can more realistically host a video library.
Bandwidth can be paid for, it’s fast enough. It’s just that the companies charge a ton for faster speeds.
My parents keep asking my wife and I to fly out to spend time with them.
They don’t get that we are trying to save for a house. Like, I do want to fly out and visit you, but we live in different countries and once all things are considered, we will be paying a huge amount of our savings to go out.
My wife and I just got to a point where we can start to save good money each month. Our parents owned their own home by the time they were our age. It’s like we have to play this game of catchup to have some stability.
I live in a third would country and the cinema is really cheap here.
They are just as nice as the ones in the states, but they don’t charge a fortune for popcorn.
Additionally, you can bring your own food and drinks.
A few years ago one cinema tried to ban it and their competitor advertised that they welcome outside food. Banning outside food was dropped almost right away.
So, grab a burger king meal, some ice cream and head into the cinema.
Video is hard because it requires a lot of space and bandwidth. We really need a storage and/or compression breakthrough.
We also need the internet providers to stop being so stingy with network speeds and bandwidth limits.
Imagine, 100 people trying to load a video from your single hard drive, it’s not fast enough for that. It’s not like a picture where the entire thing can be sent at once. So, it will require a decent tech upgrade across the board before that can be federated successfully.
A large creator could do something like that and invest money into it, but it will still really be controlled by a small group of people.
Honestly, the differences between browsers performance is almost nothing. I’ve been a long time Firefox user and only ever encountered a compatibility issue once, but that was on a 3rd world countries government webpage for a small neighborhood.
It’s not too difficult to setup, but I think people don’t realize that even if your not breaking the law, you may still have to deal with charges and going to court for years before your found innocent. All while dealing with the stress of a jury possibly finding you guilty.
Then you have prosecutors offering plea deals, so then you think do I stand my ground and risk X years in jail? Or do I plead guilty and just go to jail for 2 years?
As a foreigner living in the Philippines. I was surprised by this, but I didn’t mind. It just isn’t like this where I am from.
I’ve been here for a long time now, and I totally get it. Some people do not have a place to work at home. Some people who work good jobs don’t even have internet at home. Just when phones connection.
It’s kind of necessary for this space to be used in this manner.
I don’t know how anyone can see what’s happening in the world and say that we are not at the beginning of WW3.