Re:Moving from YouTube to PeerTube
by dylan604 on Thursday August 20, 2020 @12:31PM
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I manage petabytes of storage of media content. While this content is not mine, I'm just saying I'm fully aware of the size of video content. My personal video archive is in the hundreds of TBs. I have put forth the effort to save my content in multiple formats aw well as locally, offsite, and in the cloud. I'm saving RAW content. Most "YouTubers" are producing MP4 video content which is tiny compared to RAW. If I can do it, they can too. I guarantee YouTubers making money are making way more money than I am.
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I'm gonna go ahead and assume that to someone who manages petabytes of video content, the importance of backing up video content is more obvious than it is to, say, a non-technical person with a hobby toy unboxing channel. If it was indeed knowledge that is as common and obvious as your attitude suggests, then you probably wouldn't be making any money at all.
Perhaps it's a matter of tone not coming across well through text, but you seem to be bizarrely angry at people on YouTube in general, even more so if they don't back up their video files.
> I guarantee YouTubers making money are making way more money than I am.
You would be incorrect. The overwhelming majority of video uploaders on YouTube have never made a single cent.
You misread that. My guarantee is if a YouTuber is making any money, they are making more than I do. That implies that I am not making any money on my video that I am storing, yet I still back it up properly.