Fucking AI has destroyed the internet. And for what? All to grift a bunch of investors.

There’s no “solidifying” anything with this guy. His reign is based on his whims and emotions.

Assuming he has one before he died.

They could. Or Trump could fold tomorrow. No one knows. I don’t even think Trump knows.

It does but that’s beside the point. We’re discussing a hypothetical future.

Yes that’s why I linked to the article so you could see how you were incorrect.

This is just 12 different kinds of incorrect.

Think of how much diak space YouTube is using

Disk space will be the least of your concerns when running a service like YT.

If everyone can’t upload videos it we’ll never replace YouTube.

1. Everyone CAN upload videos to their own instance.
2. It doesn’t have to replace YouTube. It can exist alongside it as a competitor.

There is already a plug-in that supports that, along with Stripe integration.

100 subscriber is NBD. Let’s talk when you have thousands or even millions of active users. At some point you’re going to hit a wall if you were to hypothetically scale up. Costs of service would need to be covered somehow.

The sustainability argument stems from technological constraints. YouTube as a company has no problem sustaining millions of dollars in server infrastructure to serve media. Most self-hosters wouldn’t be able to do that without significant income.

I don’t agree with this perspective but also don’t know enough about server infrastructure or video streaming to argue against it.

This is a great name…

I mean it’ll work but you’ll have significantly longer loading times.

There is no doubt. Sony is actually a great example because they were the ones who tried to remove purchases from Discovery. They faced zero legal consequences. There wasn’t even any discussion of legal consequences because it’s perfectly legal. Ultimately Sony worked it out with Discovery to restore those purchases but they did not do that out of legality or out of kindness. They did it for their reputation. If Sony starts removing your streaming purchases, the same purchases you can make any a dozen other platforms, are you going to continue purchasing from them? Hail nah.

Concord was a bit different in that the content was only available for ~2 weeks so I’d imagine that would fall into some sort of legal grey area and they’d end up being sued or worse. As of yet, I don’t think “how long must ‘purchases’ be available?” has been tested in court.

You’re being needlessly pedantic for the sake of outrage. It solves OP’s problem of playing their library in multiple rooms simultaneously.

Sure would be convenient if the US came up with some way to electronically verify IDs…

I don’t know how many different ways I can say the same thing and help you understand. It’s a trivial semantic argument anyway. Have a nice day.

It’s a huge gamble for manufacturers to order a large allocation of wafers a year in advance of actual retail sales. The market can shift considerably in that time. They probably didn’t expect Nvidia to shit the bed so badly.

if people aren’t willing to pay more than the cost of production, games wouldn’t be made.

Then that unmade game wouldn’t be relevant to this discussion.

The cost of production is the floor, and the cost people are willing to pay is the ceiling, and competition finds a line somewhere in the middle

Again, no it doesn’t. “What people are willing to pay” includes the competition. If one company undercuts another with a comparable product, consumers won’t pay for the more expensive one.

What I’m saying is that competition is included in “what people are willing to pay”. Cost of production is not.

It’s not. It’s just related to the competition AKA what people are willing to pay.