I think humanity should have a Blockchain version of YouTube

[thach958]

-Are you so fed up with google's youtube?, let me explain

-I will temporarily call YouTube's Blockchain version "Ourtube"

-Every uploader or viewer will have a token key, like bitcoin

-Each video uploaded on the "Ourtube" network will be fragmented, each fragment will be stored on any Blockchain.

-Each person contributes one or several old PCs, installs an additional hard drive, upgrades the internet network speed package, installs that "OurtubeOS" blockchain, anyone who watches videos on that computer will earn advertising dollars.

-As for the risk of uploading content, there is a rating system that is synchronized with all blockchains, the list of good or bad, the owner of the video, the blockchain containing the video is like a yellow page book, data is end-to-end encrypted just like bitcoin

-And it's blockchain, no one can find out your IP address to sue you for uploading copyrighted content, NO ONE can control this blockchain, including the author who created it, just like bitcoin.

-The worst case when you can't access this network because of DNS blocking, can't see the web, people can make the app to circumvent the law.

-thanks for reading

 

update 1: To ensure that "underground forces" do not have a chance to sabotage "Ourtube", I recommend that blockchains be equipped with AI accelerators, the purpose of which is to quickly check whether the uploaded video is trash, causing full capacity status of the entire “Ourtube” network

update 2: I want to limit the bitrate of every video around to 10 mbps, with unlimited compatibility of AV1 video codec formats

update 3: Do you remember Kim Dotcom?, the boss of Mega, the blockchain system will be like a yellow page book, and the fragmented video on each blockchain will be encrypted to ensure everything is the same as Kim Dotcom's Mega, in short, to ensuring everyone who participates in Ourtube is safe from the law

update 4: I'm wondering whether to choose Bitcoin or ETH to use it as a tool to share advertising money, when a viewer sees one or more ads in a video, all blockchains containing that video and uploader will receive money from the advertiser, 50% for uploader, 50% for many nodes

Update 5: To avoid the risk of video loss when some nodes of the blockchain lose connection for any reason, I recommend that the network should be able to duplicate and fragment the video to more nodes, similarly  like RAID technology

Update 6: To make sure no one wants to use ad blocker (because it's too annoying), I only want the ad to exist as a banner, with controlled frequency of appearance, maximum 10 seconds if the banner is inserted into a video frame,  If anyone uses ad blocker, the blockchain system will automatically block video streaming to any device that uses ad blocker.

 

 

[will0hlep]

One problem I forsee is that a large amount of data management would be required to avoid uploaded content being lost as PCs were removed from the network or as they broke down

[ki8aras]

ok sure, but what do i as a regular guy, gain from doing all of this? updating my internet or reviving my old pc's to host this?

[thach958]

4 minutes ago, ki8aras said:

ok sure, but what do i as a regular guy, gain from doing all of this? updating my internet or reviving my old pc's to host this?

I think you should have both

[ki8aras]

for the creators to be rewarded for their work someone has to buy those tokens, will those be the viewers?

cuz i think i speak for a large majority of humanity when i say i don't wanna pay for videos, can't even in this economy

 

for the small majority of people that want to pay to watch their favorite creators platforms like patreon on floatplane already exist

 

 

[ki8aras]

1 minute ago, thach958 said:

I think you should have both

what im trying to say is that in today's world something like this could never be mass adopted, cuz the only positive thing about it, is privacy

which in today's world isn't worth much

[thach958]

2 minutes ago, ki8aras said:

for the creators to be rewarded for their work someone has to buy those tokens, will those be the viewers?

cuz i think i speak for a large majority of humanity when i say i don't wanna pay for videos, can't even in this economy

 

for the small majority of people that want to pay to watch their favorite creators platforms like patreon on floatplane already exist

 

 

no no you misunderstood, the token key is actually just a login account, no one will lose money to watch videos or upload videos, no way, only advertisers will be the ones who have to lose money

[thevictor390]

You're kind of mixing up blockain and peer to peer in a way that would not even remotely work. You can't store (enough) data on a blockchain.

[ki8aras]

1 minute ago, thach958 said:

no no you misunderstood, the token key is actually just a login account, no one will lose money to watch videos or upload videos, no way, only advertisers will be the ones who have to lose money

okay sure, but given the anonymity of the whole thing, won't it be extremely easy to fake views by making millions upon millions of accounts and spam views to everyone?

 

making this site a no-no for advertisers thus no monetary incentive for creators?

[thach958]

5 minutes ago, ki8aras said:

okay sure, but given the anonymity of the whole thing, won't it be extremely easy to fake views by making millions upon millions of accounts and spam views to everyone?

 

making this site a no-no for advertisers thus no monetary incentive for creators?

That's right, I agree, but I haven't come up with any mechanism to prevent this from happening, yep

 

Edit: I think there is a simple way, for example, limit the frequency of ad appearances, based on the Token list of the blockchain

[tikker]

Like LBRY and similar services?

 

32 minutes ago, thach958 said:

-As for the risk of uploading content, there is a rating system that is synchronized with all blockchains, the list of good or bad, the owner of the video, the blockchain containing the video is like a yellow page book, data is end-to-end encrypted just like bitcoin

How would you deal with illegal content that "isn't yours" but is on your drives because you store parts of the chain and or the content on it? What about potential content that is legal in one country but not in another? Knowing the owner of the video means you keep track of who uploaded it, which leads to your next statement:

32 minutes ago, thach958 said:

-And it's blockchain, no one can find out your IP address to sue you for uploading copyrighted content, NO ONE can control this blockchain, including the author who created it, just like bitcoin.

If you attach an owner to things, they can be tracked. Just like Bitcoin, the blockchain is not anonymous. That's why tumblers were made in order to make it harder to track one's activity on the blockchain. Slip up in your privacy management somewhere and they can trace you back and sue you for copyright infringement all the same should they want to.

[podkall]

41 minutes ago, thach958 said:

Each person contributes one or several old PCs, installs an additional hard drive,

who's gonna pay the E bills for the constant flow of energy in the PC?

 

22 minutes ago, ki8aras said:

okay sure, but given the anonymity of the whole thing, won't it be extremely easy to fake views by making millions upon millions of accounts and spam views to everyone?

how do you make millions of accounts watch a video without a supercomputer?

[ki8aras]

Just now, podkall said:

who's gonna pay the E bills for the constant flow of energy in the PC?

 

how do you make millions of accounts watch a video without a supercomputer?

it's called a botnet

[podkall]

8 minutes ago, ki8aras said:

it's called a botnet

ah yes, isn't that illegal if it isn't their pc?

[Avocado Diaboli]

Wow, another scheme to turn everybody into petty landlords. Invest in the blockchain so you can earn money with the blockchain. This will in no way create an arms race to invest the most into the blockchain to maximize your investment and the returns on that. It will totally not lead to a scenario where storage media will become a hot commodity causing a shortage based on a gold-rush bubble that will inevitably burst. Because it always does.

 

Never mind that it's concerning how you tout the potential for unpoliceable criminal activity such as copyright infringement as a feature and not a bug. This is the only way you crypto apologists can spin this, by appealing to this idea that our current body of laws is somehow a problem in itself and that a state of anarchy, might-is-right is desiderable. "Are you fed up with having follow the law? Wouldn't life be nicer if you could just ignore it and make money doing so? Invest in crypto today!"

[ki8aras]

23 minutes ago, podkall said:

ah yes, isn't that illegal if it isn't their pc?

yea but with the anonymity provided by this kind of setup, nobody will be able to stop you

[IkeaGnome]

Just now, ki8aras said:

yea but with the anonymity provided by this kind of setup, nobody will be able to stop you

Because blockchain makes everything untrackable?

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/07/feds-seize-3point36-billion-in-bitcoin-the-second-largest-recovery-so-far.html

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-arrested-alleged-conspiracy-launder-45-billion-stolen-cryptocurrency

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/09/technology/bitcoin-untraceable-pipeline-ransomware.html

[ki8aras]

1 minute ago, IkeaGnome said:

Because blockchain makes everything untrackable?

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/07/feds-seize-3point36-billion-in-bitcoin-the-second-largest-recovery-so-far.html

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-arrested-alleged-conspiracy-launder-45-billion-stolen-cryptocurrency

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/09/technology/bitcoin-untraceable-pipeline-ransomware.html

if it isn't untrackable then there isn't any point to this is there?

[podkall]

1 minute ago, ki8aras said:

if it isn't untrackable then there isn't any point to this is there?

I'd imagine hacking a blockchain isn't easy

[Mark Kaine]

4 hours ago, ki8aras said:

ok sure, but what do i as a regular guy, gain from doing all of this? updating my internet or reviving my old pc's to host this?

absolutely nothing,  ops "idea" makes no sense and doesn't solve any issues just creates more issues (its also an obvious joke thread ) 

[Arika]

Gross.

[GOTSpectrum]

I think the fact that YouTube has struggled to make a profit for the majority of its existence goes to show why there isn't a viable competitor. 

 

The amount of data you would be expecting the average user to store is just.... far too high. In reality, this wouldn't work. That's the truth, there's no way that this would ever work. 

 

This need to push every possible thing into blockchains is just silly. Blockchains have their place, in very specific use cases, but hosting is not one of them 

 

 

[BattlingBacon]

On 9/6/2023 at 2:28 PM, thach958 said:

no one can find out your IP address to sue you for uploading copyrighted content

Wait but that's not a good thing lmao

[05032-Mendicant-Bias]

You just reinvented Torrent, and made it slower, and strapped an exploitative reward scheme to it.

Which, to be fair, is all blockchain can ever hope to do.

[BrandonLatzig]

6 hours ago, 05032-Mendicant-Bias said:

You just reinvented Torrent, and made it slower, and strapped an exploitative reward scheme to it.

10 dollars for a cat video please