Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video CombinedTheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.world – 825 points – 1 weeks agovariety.com393Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all commentsShow the parent commentI 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.All of those things already exist. Typically it's just a Plex server running on a cloud service.Yeah like... Netflix has peering agreements and whatnot but.. It's not 2005.5 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 websitesThe 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 projectsI doubt Wikimedia streams even 0.1% of what netflix does.Not only that, stackoverflow does it using windows! (or used to, at least)
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.All of those things already exist. Typically it's just a Plex server running on a cloud service.Yeah like... Netflix has peering agreements and whatnot but.. It's not 2005.5 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 websitesThe 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 projectsI doubt Wikimedia streams even 0.1% of what netflix does.Not only that, stackoverflow does it using windows! (or used to, at least)
All of those things already exist. Typically it's just a Plex server running on a cloud service.Yeah like... Netflix has peering agreements and whatnot but.. It's not 2005.
Both Wikipedia and Stack Overflow just have a few dozen fast servers despite being some of the world's highest trafficked websitesThe 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 projectsI doubt Wikimedia streams even 0.1% of what netflix does.Not only that, stackoverflow does it using windows! (or used to, at least)
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 projectsI doubt Wikimedia streams even 0.1% of what netflix does.
That is just the text content, Wikipedia has pictures and videos as well. Not to mention the other Wikimedia projectsI doubt Wikimedia streams even 0.1% of what netflix does.
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.
All of those things already exist. Typically it's just a Plex server running on a cloud service.
Yeah like... Netflix has peering agreements and whatnot but.. It's not 2005.
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.
Not only that, stackoverflow does it using windows! (or used to, at least)