I dont know how much this would cost but I was wondering that instead of uploading movies on direct download / torrents and sharing them here... why not introduce the facility of directly streaming them from this site?
Instead of direct / torrent downloads why not make Streaming / youtube videos type facility?
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I can't speak for the admins or mods but I think there are a lot of benefits to the way this is done now versus a streaming site. Granted I rarely visit streaming sites but I have in the past and will in the future.
1. Streaming sites do not offer a lot of compromise when it comes to low bandwidth or site blocking.
2. The quality of streamed video is rarely as good or even comparable to ISO, mp4 or .mkv quality.
3. Streamed video just does not have the same soul as other filesharing methods. Others go to a lot of time and trouble to share what they have with others, freely, and that is the heart of filesharing. If we could only do that with food and water we would wipe out world hunger.
4. This site does not host the videos that others share, only links to the same. There is a lot to be said for that. To stream the videos they would have to host them.
lastly:
This site can barely tolerate the traffic it does have at times, streaming sites must be able to handle a ton of traffic.
I might be wrong on some points and others may find my opinions here argumentitive but this is my view on it just the same.
1. Streaming sites do not offer a lot of compromise when it comes to low bandwidth or site blocking.
2. The quality of streamed video is rarely as good or even comparable to ISO, mp4 or .mkv quality.
3. Streamed video just does not have the same soul as other filesharing methods. Others go to a lot of time and trouble to share what they have with others, freely, and that is the heart of filesharing. If we could only do that with food and water we would wipe out world hunger.
4. This site does not host the videos that others share, only links to the same. There is a lot to be said for that. To stream the videos they would have to host them.
lastly:
This site can barely tolerate the traffic it does have at times, streaming sites must be able to handle a ton of traffic.
I might be wrong on some points and others may find my opinions here argumentitive but this is my view on it just the same.
I don't help run this place or anything, but I offer some more reasons that things might be this way.
1 Streaming sites also don't allow the uploaders to make a bit of cash like they do with the DDL file sharing hosts. The current format encourages people to share, even if they aren't exactly earning money from Akiba-Online.
2 Collectors like to collect, not just watch. A stamp collector may enjoy a trip to a stamp museum, but it would not satisfy their desire to fill a missing hole in their collection they have at home. Same deal here.
3 As Ceewan said, bandwidth requirements for that are crazy.
4 I wouldn't even want to begin to imagine the legal aspects of hosting a streaming video type site in this day and age.
1 Streaming sites also don't allow the uploaders to make a bit of cash like they do with the DDL file sharing hosts. The current format encourages people to share, even if they aren't exactly earning money from Akiba-Online.
2 Collectors like to collect, not just watch. A stamp collector may enjoy a trip to a stamp museum, but it would not satisfy their desire to fill a missing hole in their collection they have at home. Same deal here.
3 As Ceewan said, bandwidth requirements for that are crazy.
4 I wouldn't even want to begin to imagine the legal aspects of hosting a streaming video type site in this day and age.
the main reason, has to be the bandwidth, it needs to be huge, and most stream sites only have poor quality clip/films/videos, and most want the best quality, I know a few members will download a avi/mp4/others, and if they like it, will go for the best,
and of course there are the reason that has been stated (thank you)
and of course there are the reason that has been stated (thank you)
I Thank you all for sharing the feedbacks. Now I am not from IT background so dont know nitty gritties, but I had suggested because:
1. In this age of cloud computing, most of the stuff now remains on cloud.
2. After downloading most of us would watch the movie/clips only couple of times. Cloud would save the hard disk space (not that there is not enough space on hard disk, but still)
3. There are few unfortunate people (like me) who dont have very high speed broadband connection (I can watch movie streaming at 360p/720p easily) but downloading HD movies take lots of time.
I understand the points mentioned in above posts are quite valid and I dont know what incentives there are for uploading/making tube sites.. but its just that I wanted to share my thoughts.
Thanks.
1. In this age of cloud computing, most of the stuff now remains on cloud.
2. After downloading most of us would watch the movie/clips only couple of times. Cloud would save the hard disk space (not that there is not enough space on hard disk, but still)
3. There are few unfortunate people (like me) who dont have very high speed broadband connection (I can watch movie streaming at 360p/720p easily) but downloading HD movies take lots of time.
I understand the points mentioned in above posts are quite valid and I dont know what incentives there are for uploading/making tube sites.. but its just that I wanted to share my thoughts.
Thanks.
1. free cloud storage cannot hold a lot of live streaming videos especially HD versions. paid cloud storage could do that but akiba would have to pay for it
2. if i wanted to rewatch it, it's far easier to have separate copy than to depend on the internet for reruns especially on internet down days. a lot of us collect those movies as well.
3. that's just deal of the trade with areas of slow net connection. you just have to live with it.
2. if i wanted to rewatch it, it's far easier to have separate copy than to depend on the internet for reruns especially on internet down days. a lot of us collect those movies as well.
3. that's just deal of the trade with areas of slow net connection. you just have to live with it.