Re:Streem (YC S12) Offers Unlimited Cloud Storage and Stream...
by foobarqux on Wednesday April 16, 2014 @08:52PM
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How is this different/better than streamnation.com?
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Re:Streem (YC S12) Offers Unlimited Cloud Storage and Stream...
by ritikm on Wednesday April 16, 2014 @08:58PM
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- Native desktop filesystem integration. We don't make you go to a website to access your content; everything is accessible as a regular file in Explorer/Finder and opens/plays in your native player (i.e. VLC).
- Instant adaptive bitrate transcoding. Videos you upload to Streem play instantly on any device, regardless of bandwidth (slow connections automatically get a lower quality; if your connection gets better, we auto-upgrade to a higher quality). Streamnation has a large wait time before the video is transcoded and ready for playback.
- Streamnation has illegal features built in to their app (i.e. auto-scraping and uploading YouTube videos), which makes them much more liable for shutdown.
Re:Streem (YC S12) Offers Unlimited Cloud Storage and Stream...
by Dylan16807 on Thursday April 17, 2014 @01:04AM
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Illegal? If VCR and cloud DVR are legal I would expect a personal youtube recorder's legality to be murky but probably acceptable.
Re:Streem (YC S12) Offers Unlimited Cloud Storage and Stream...
by ritikm on Thursday April 17, 2014 @01:46AM
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Sorry, bad choice of words. It's against YouTube's TOS, and there have been quite a few YouTube-scraping sites that have been taken down by YouTube/their legal team in the past, so there's precedent for Streamnation to go under the same way.