Printable View
When you post a video in the personal ads it simply post a file that others have to download to watch.
The fact that other users can easily download these personal videos is a concern.
There should be a player whereby others can watch the personal ad video on the website but not download it.
bill gates and drew are two seperate people lol........
ok if you have a server based video file that people can only view and not download, you will need to increase the bandwidth for the site and possibly upgrade the server in order to handle the increased traffic..... that requires money....and bisexual.com is a free site......
put it in simple terms, you have 100 vids at 10 mg a piece, you have 10 gig of bandwidth a month to use @ $100 a month but can buy a extra 10 gig as needed for a extra $50
if one person downloads all 100 vids, thats a gig per person.....and if you have 10 people download all 100, thats your 10 gig gone so you have to shell out another $50 for the month.....
if the vids were hosted for streaming, the numbers would be the same.... but if each person watch each video 5 times via streaming then you would need to allow for 5 gig per user and with 10 users streaming the vids, you would need 50 gig of bandwidth just for those 10 people plus extra for the other members..... or $300 a month ( 60 gig ) you would be paying out and thats just for the bandwidth, if you have to upgrade the server, its even more money.... and again, bisexual.com is a free site......
I am not using accurate $, just using numbers to give you a idea, but I know from past experience that high load sites are not cheap to run in terms of bandwidth
drew may have a different viewpoint and have ideas in the pipeline like paid membership that will allow for streaming videos, but downloaded videos are cheaper than streaming
Basically, what LDD said.
Even if we were to stream the videos in some sort of player, they are going to be downloadable - there are ways to capture streaming video no matter how it is done. On any personal ads site you should assume that if you are uploading a video there are going to be persons who download it.
Video viewing is however going to be one of the features we limit to Fanclub members - because of the bandwidth costs. So that will restrict the number of people seeing your video, and will limit it to people who are serious about personal ads and/or supporting the site, and I think those people are less likely to take your video and post it elsewhere on the internet as their own.
- Drew :paw:
Could just post a link to your X-Tube, Dudesnude etc vids, if that's allowed?
like drew said about capturing vids, one can capture anything that is played on or streamed on the net anywhere, if you know how. anything that can be seen on the monitor can be captured. so if one dosent want it saved to anothers computer dont post or play it on the net. i capture u-tube vids all the time and full length from porn sites without even registering.