TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoFive Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combinedvariety.comexternal-linkmessage-square209linkfedilinkarrow-up1689arrow-down18cross-posted to: piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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minus-squareWrench@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up92arrow-down6·2 years 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-squarethemurphy@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down4·2 years ago5 people could do it though.
minus-squareripcord@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·2 years agoDepends how many users. But yeah a lot.
minus-squareiopq@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·2 years 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-up11·2 years agoThe entire content of the wikipedia fits in a pen drive. Streaming video is a lot more expensive than text and images.
minus-squareirelephant [he/him]🍭@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down2·2 years agoThat is just the text content, Wikipedia has pictures and videos as well. Not to mention the other Wikimedia projects
minus-squarecalcopiritus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·2 years agoI 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.
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.