2023-11-11, 07:56 AM
+1 for what gavgaddis said. also to be brutally honest - if you're saying that your costs are primarily due to providing other people with access to your server - then just cut them off. look, if the content expansion is due to them, then don't expand. on the other hand, if you're the primary beneficiary of the content and infrastructure, then suck it up. if you can't afford to host content for yourself, that's your problem. no one's forcing you to keep a server running.
my take is that _my server and content_ are exactly that, mine. I bear the costs of maintaining it, expanding it, populating it. it literally does not cost me anything extra to _grant_ access to it for other people, that's a bonus for those lucky peeps. I don't have the infrastructure for them, I have it for me. if I don't have what they want to watch, tough, not my problem. I'm certainly not gonna go obtain whatever it is someone else wants to watch that I have absolutely no interest in myself.
my take is that _my server and content_ are exactly that, mine. I bear the costs of maintaining it, expanding it, populating it. it literally does not cost me anything extra to _grant_ access to it for other people, that's a bonus for those lucky peeps. I don't have the infrastructure for them, I have it for me. if I don't have what they want to watch, tough, not my problem. I'm certainly not gonna go obtain whatever it is someone else wants to watch that I have absolutely no interest in myself.