Today I have 100Mb fiber to my house. I’m pretty sure that’s enough to handle a personal video website for somebody with a modest following. Yet we live on these massive centralized platforms.
How? I would love to see some initiatives in that area (beside IPFS)
I personally really enjoyed the "Links" sections at the bottoms of everyone's Web 1.0 pages.
plex (https://www.plex.tv/) already has most of what you need. However if I put a video of my kid's first words on plex how does grandma find it?
It might be easy for us to upload a torrent, but to most others, it is extremely hard, if not impossible.
The other problem with torrents is that it relies on reseeding. Preservation of content is a problem with torrents.
[1]: https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/7487775/2012_Olympics_Openi...
Largely, the TOS/“contract” doesn’t define host clearly. So you need to get real specific what you mean.
Blocking an ftp server because it’s a host would also block Apple iChat video because it’s “hosting” a video stream.
For my ISP (ATT/uverse) they prevent hosting a commercial service, otherwise they aren’t specific. And it’s not for hosting purposes, it’s for SLA purposes so they aren’t responsible for revenue loss from system outage.
Technical Restrictions:
use or run dedicated, stand-alone equipment or servers from the Premises that provide network content or any other services to anyone outside of your Premises local area network (“Premises LAN”), also commonly referred to as public services or servers. Examples of prohibited equipment and servers include, but are not limited to, email, web hosting, file sharing, and proxy services and servers;