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A comment on Ask HN: Can there be a YouTube with the Wikipedia model?.

Re:Ask HN: Can there be a YouTube with the Wikipedia model? by niftich on Monday August 01, 2016 @02:42PM (#12204832)
To run a centralized video platform you need lots bandwidth and storage [1]. Paying for this will be a challenge if you rely only on donations.

If you run a peer-to-peer video platform you are competing with other peer-to-peer video platforms, most of which are not very well-known [2].

[1] http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/04/cheaper-bandwidth-or-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-Peer_Assisted_Streamin...

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Re:Ask HN: Can there be a YouTube with the Wikipedia model? by holaboyperu on Monday August 01, 2016 @03:02PM (#12205008)
Do you think not even Wikipedia could pull this off? Maybe is content was limited for Scientific channels? Maybe if Wikipedia buys Subbable, and uses VP9 to reduce some bandwidth costs?
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