A distributed filesystem with all the content that mankind has ever created. Nothing gets taken down, everything is encoded in HEVC or AV1, 3D and mega-superduper-sound. Streaming clients for every platform and TV. And monetization built in so the content creators have some motivation to upload their content themselves and get payed directly, without labels and other companies in the middle who take the largest cut.
Basically yes, Like Netflix, just without Netflix increasing subscription prices every one to two years while removing content I like. And being a for-profit company that makes me pay more and creators earn less. I mean I can afford $30 a month if it gives me all the TV series I like, movies and audiobooks and all the music out there. For all I care it could bill me per view if that gets close to that amount of money… I’m not opposed to paying in the first place… It’s just that too much content has become unavailable on Netflix. And I like Spotify, but they’re paying artists next to nothing. I don’t see any benefit there, If they’re ripping off the artists anyways… Why not do it myself, cut out the middle-man and save the bucks?
And all of the services make everything difficult to use, Netflix crapped out after I connected via another internet connection, Disney doesn’t work on my old TV. And Star Trek isn’t available on either of them. All the data-collecting and DRM shit on top that doesn’t allow me to watch full-HD on Linux… Yeah and I want to use a Kodi-Box, not a Fire-TV-Stick.
Nothing gets taken down, everything is encoded in HEVC or AV1, 3D and mega-superduper-sound.
I’m not sure if I’d want the filesystem, browsing, transmission and decoding costs from having to store Ally McBeal (1997) on 3D mega superduper surround. 480p video 64kbps audio is fine.
Haha, yeah I didn’t think it through properly. There are a lot of 90s TV series that got filmed on magnetic tape in 480. Guess you can’t re-master Ally McBeal and redo the CGI / spaceship scenes in full HD. They could do it for Captain Kirk but the era after that is just SD television with stereo(?) sound and that’s it, you’re right. Sometimes people re-encode old stuff with more modern codecs and I’ve deleted old, blocky and very compressed DivX versions I had on my old computer.
Freenet is a distributed file system. Imagine a useful front end to that where you could upload your content and also subscribe to other people or content. Could be awesome. Too bad I can’t code for shit.
Yeah, there are lots of distributed filesystems and platforms… the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), Freenet, GNUnet, Osiris, ZeroNet, Dat, I2P, Tahoe-LAFS…
A distributed filesystem with all the content that mankind has ever created. Nothing gets taken down, everything is encoded in HEVC or AV1, 3D and mega-superduper-sound. Streaming clients for every platform and TV. And monetization built in so the content creators have some motivation to upload their content themselves and get payed directly, without labels and other companies in the middle who take the largest cut.
so… netflix with extra storage?
Netflix is just S3 with a fancy UI.
are you lost?
Basically yes, Like Netflix, just without Netflix increasing subscription prices every one to two years while removing content I like. And being a for-profit company that makes me pay more and creators earn less. I mean I can afford $30 a month if it gives me all the TV series I like, movies and audiobooks and all the music out there. For all I care it could bill me per view if that gets close to that amount of money… I’m not opposed to paying in the first place… It’s just that too much content has become unavailable on Netflix. And I like Spotify, but they’re paying artists next to nothing. I don’t see any benefit there, If they’re ripping off the artists anyways… Why not do it myself, cut out the middle-man and save the bucks?
And all of the services make everything difficult to use, Netflix crapped out after I connected via another internet connection, Disney doesn’t work on my old TV. And Star Trek isn’t available on either of them. All the data-collecting and DRM shit on top that doesn’t allow me to watch full-HD on Linux… Yeah and I want to use a Kodi-Box, not a Fire-TV-Stick.
I’m not sure if I’d want the filesystem, browsing, transmission and decoding costs from having to store Ally McBeal (1997) on 3D mega superduper surround. 480p video 64kbps audio is fine.
Haha, yeah I didn’t think it through properly. There are a lot of 90s TV series that got filmed on magnetic tape in 480. Guess you can’t re-master Ally McBeal and redo the CGI / spaceship scenes in full HD. They could do it for Captain Kirk but the era after that is just SD television with stereo(?) sound and that’s it, you’re right. Sometimes people re-encode old stuff with more modern codecs and I’ve deleted old, blocky and very compressed DivX versions I had on my old computer.
Freenet is a distributed file system. Imagine a useful front end to that where you could upload your content and also subscribe to other people or content. Could be awesome. Too bad I can’t code for shit.
Yeah, there are lots of distributed filesystems and platforms… the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), Freenet, GNUnet, Osiris, ZeroNet, Dat, I2P, Tahoe-LAFS…
Maybe the Web 3.0 gets us there.
As far as I know i2p doesn’t have a distributed file system. I think you can run Tahoe-LAFS over it, but it looks complex. Never tried it.
But if netflix is just a nice gui over S3, then a nice gui over freenet should be simple. Right? Not that I could do it, but I like the idea.