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  • eek2121@lemmy.worldtoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEBAY Prices
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    1 year ago

    Because people do pay the money.

    If an item is hard to find they will pay it.

    People that only buy stuff on eBay will pay for it.

    If someone randomly sees the item they need they will buy it.

    Example: I paid $2,200 on eBay for an RTX 4090 FE because they were sold out everywhere. The extra few hundred bucks for me was worth it to get the FE card over 3rd party cards since it is the smallest and quietist of the bunch. None of the other 4090s fit in my case.





  • My CDN’s policies are pretty well set via contract. There is no provision for using too much bandwidth and I pay yearly at any rate.

    I bring this up not so the average joe can host their own videos, but to point out that yes, someone can create a youtube clone. The hosting of multimedia content isn’t what stops that. A site like youtube has to attract 2 market verticals: talent and users, which is incredibly difficult without gobs of money to throw at it.


  • I did say practically free.

    IRL Example: I host several videos across my various sites. I pay $99/mo for a CDN. Said CDN caches my videos and does not charge for bandwidth usage. Therefore you can technically argue that I pay $99/mo for X visitors. In actuality , the CDN caches all my content. It also provides DDOS protection, a firewall, and other advanced features. That is what I pay $99/mo for.

    My cost to distribute the video is $99 + my hosting bill ($50-$200/mo depending on backend jobs) / number of views. This would be true if the video has 1 view or a billion (most of the ones I host have had “millions” of views)

    The video can be 360p or 8k. CDN does not care. Mine are 4k.


  • It really isn’t. I can get a gigabit pipe and all the storage i can cram into a 4U for a few hundred a month. That is enough to serve several dozen users. Add on a CDN and now you can serve thousands or more. I can probably find 10 or 100 gigabit offerings for not much more.

    The bigger issue is copyright. A site that gains traction in the video space by ripping youtube videos would get sued into oblivion.