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772 points vkdelta | 3 comments | 30 Mar 25 14:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.637s | source
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hombre_fatal ◴[03 Apr 25 00:59 UTC] No.43563571[source]▶
Can someone explain the economics of this?

So, there are a bunch of open http endpoints serving free video feeds and they don't care about bandwidth?

It's not like radio where you broadcast it and people passively receive the signal.

This is a great service for language practice, though. Wish it had a login + favorites system.

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hsuduebc2 ◴[03 Apr 25 01:23 UTC] No.43563679[source]▶
I wouldn't they don't care. It just wasn't problem for them. But basically yes. I blindly checked few of the TV's listed for my country and every one of them had live stream on Google publicly available somewhere.

But is this really a concern for them? If they are making money from advertisement this just add them justification for higher price of an ad.

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1. dkh ◴[03 Apr 25 06:25 UTC] No.43565507[source]▶
They aren't making money from this, but they are likely operating at a scale where they either don't notice if 1000 nerds on the internet are piggybacking their feeds, or don't care all that much.

It is not likely useful to them in negotiating ad rates, at least not with how advertising is usually bought/sold, because the broadcaster has almost no information (if any) about anyone watching these streams, including if it's even a person. It's possible they could fold it into a more general ad package that places a lot of weight on total view/viewers numbers, but that is a lot less common these days, and when it is done, the rates tend to be much lower

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2. hsuduebc2 ◴[03 Apr 25 07:15 UTC] No.43565958[source]▶
Yea I meant it is an argument they can use but not a good metric at all. I agree that mostly they just do not care. This tool only means that they'll get more international views from curious people but in the end it means nothing.
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3. Mindwipe ◴[03 Apr 25 11:12 UTC] No.43567919[source]▶
It doesn't even really mean that, the ones that care are already geofiltered. Most of these feeds only work in their country of origin.