@TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 9 months agoFive Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combinedvariety.comexternal-linkmessage-square351fedilinkarrow-up1837arrow-down10cross-posted to: anticorporate@lemmy.giftedmc.comaboringdystopia@lemmy.worldpiracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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minus-square@Wrench@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish110•9 months 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-square@ripcord@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish10•9 months agoDepends how many users. But yeah a lot.
minus-square@iopq@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish4•9 months agoBoth Wikipedia and Stack Overflow just have a few dozen fast servers despite being some of the world’s highest trafficked websites
minus-square@calcopiritus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish11•9 months 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]🍭linkfedilinkEnglish5•9 months agoThat is just the text content, Wikipedia has pictures and videos as well. Not to mention the other Wikimedia projects
minus-square@calcopiritus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish7•9 months 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.