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Love how they make this sound like some incredible feat. When you aren’t bound to license agreements, turns out it’s actually very easy to have a “massive” content library. Literally the only hurdle is storage space.

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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.

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5 people could do it though.

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Depends how many users.

But yeah a lot.

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All of those things already exist. Typically it’s just a Plex server running on a cloud service.

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Yeah like… Netflix has peering agreements and whatnot but… It’s not 2005.

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Both Wikipedia and Stack Overflow just have a few dozen fast servers despite being some of the world’s highest trafficked websites

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The entire content of the wikipedia fits in a pen drive.

Streaming video is a lot more expensive than text and images.

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Yeah it costs, depending on quality of course.
My 14 TB disks are filling up faster than I expected and I am not close to Netflix’s catalogue.

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Yeah, I got a 14tb drive back in February and it’s 90 percent full already. My media collection will always grow to fill the space available.

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You guys wouldn’t happen to have any tips on DVD ripping would you? I’d like to go all digital but I just can’t make Handbrake work.

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