TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoFive Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combinedvariety.comexternal-linkmessage-square398fedilinkarrow-up1844arrow-down18cross-posted to: anticorporate@lemmy.giftedmc.comaboringdystopia@lemmy.worlddatahoarder@lemmit.onlinepiracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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minus-squareiopq@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·5 months agoBoth Wikipedia and Stack Overflow just have a few dozen fast servers despite being some of the world’s highest trafficked websites
minus-squarecalcopiritus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·5 months agoThe entire content of the wikipedia fits in a pen drive. Streaming video is a lot more expensive than text and images.
minus-squareIrelephant@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down2·5 months agoThat is just the text content, Wikipedia has pictures and videos as well. Not to mention the other Wikimedia projects
minus-squarecalcopiritus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·5 months agoI doubt Wikimedia streams even 0.1% of what netflix does.
minus-squareTja@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·5 months agoNot only that, stackoverflow does it using windows! (or used to, at least)
Both Wikipedia and Stack Overflow just have a few dozen fast servers despite being some of the world’s highest trafficked websites
The entire content of the wikipedia fits in a pen drive.
Streaming video is a lot more expensive than text and images.
That is just the text content, Wikipedia has pictures and videos as well. Not to mention the other Wikimedia projects
I doubt Wikimedia streams even 0.1% of what netflix does.
Not only that, stackoverflow does it using windows! (or used to, at least)