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What can I say..... I thought when I clicked through the site and went to select a movie it would take hours to load. My brother is playing counterstrike, my sister and father are both using the internet and it loaded for me in less then 15 seconds. Im shocked.
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How will this hold up when 100's of thousands or even millions of people are watching at the same time. Is this built to scale up and if so how.
They are torrents on your browser. So i don't see any problems on that. I would be more worried on the legal issues which may ensue.
I really wouldn't worry about any legal issues unless you live in the UK which I do, so I will use a vpn if and when a potential problem arises with my ISP, to date it hasn't.. Dev team have you thought about some kind of referral advertisement for vpns, even if it is pennies adding up when you get to masses watching pure vidz it will soon add up.
Yes, VPN referrals and advertisements are a big part of our sites monetization model while it gets started. Depending on the country our users live in, VPNs could range from a convenience to a necessity so informing them of how to protect themselves while also generating revenue is a perfect fit for our site.
In our whitepaper we've listed a number of other avenues for monetization we will be using as the site grows.
Would it be possible or is it planned to have a chat on PureVidz where people can bid/buy uploads they want?
Will purevidz be holding and paying uploaders their bounties or will that be done p2p?
i'd like to know how the bounties work as well?
There are 3 types of bounties.
Global bounties are per item or time based and reward any valid content submitted to the website. There is currently a 1,000,000 VIDZ global bounty running. Those coins will be distributed to everyone who submits valid content to the website between now and the full 1.0 launch of the site following the ICO. These coins are split among contributors based on the items they submit. Global bounties happen every time the dev fund refills to a certain level.
User bounties are when a user really wants a new episode of a tv show or movie and puts a fixed amount of coins into a bounty for that particular item. These bounties are combined together and there will be a list on the website showing what is in high demand and the payout each. For example if 10 people each place a 100 vidz bounty on the new marvel movie then it has a total bounty of 1,000 tokens. 80% goes to the uploader, 10% goes to dev fund and 10% goes to the moderator who reviews the submission before approving it.
VIP bounties are the same as user bounties except that there is no fixed value and rather the payout is calculated by the system. When you buy a premium membership, a portion of the tokens used to buy it are burned, a portion are put into the dev fund and a portion are put towards your vote 'weight'. When you request items you are simply saying "I would like to watch this" and it adds it to your tracked items. When it becomes available you are alerted so that you can always keep up to date with your requests. Your hidden vote weight is then distributed among all content that you've requested that month.