When will the bounty's get paid out for uploading the torrents and how long before an uploaded torrent is available to watch?
The global bounty is running throughout beta and following the full launch of the site after ICO the coins from that bounty will be split among everyone who submitted content to the site.
Torrents are available the second you submit them (they will show in your account profile and you can send the link to your friends or use it yourself) but it will not show in search results or on the homepage until a moderator confirms that the release is working and properly labeled. This process will become quicker as more and more moderators are added to the site. During the beta period we're attempting to attract as many existing torrent communities to submit their own content to the site. These users will be given moderator accounts with the understanding that they will not abuse the privilege. Given there are no bounties paid out until the end of beta there's no real risk to doing this and it allows us to give them a trial period as moderators to include them in the full launch of the site. So far two such moderators have been added.
How will the bounty crab work? If people are uploading ts, Workprint, SCR versions, can we choose whom to pay or wait for BRrip to appear?
We will have a specific value associated with each type of release. If there is a large bounty on a movie still in theater and someone submits a screener or some other recording of it, they can still have that approved but a moderator would simply flag the submission as 'low quality' which will result in the bounty being much lower. The remaining bounty is 'reserved' for when a proper high quality release is submitted and paid out to them instead.
Basically anything that is not a 720p or higher submission will result in only a partial bounty being received and the remaining bounty funds will be reserved for someone submitting a proper quality copy which will then replace the original in search results/suggested content.
Id like to know this too. Who chose who gets the bounty and based on what merits do they get the bounty.
If you have VIDZ and want to place a bounty you will type the name of the item, select the specific result from a list (to distinguish between all the remakes and crap that are released these days) and then place an amount you wish to place. People looking to submit content can see a list of all bounties currently placed, ordered by upvotes and total amount.
When they submit content that matches one of those bounties and a moderator confirms the upload is real then the bounty will be paid out. The majority goes to the person submitting the content with a smaller percentage going to the moderator who reviewed the application and the remainder being added to the dev fund to sponsor site wide global bounties or advertising campaigns.
Honestly this site works fantastically compared to megashare, watch series or projectfreetv. But like the others said with no selection you wont gain any users. Dev. What is your plan to gain users both watchers and uploaders going forward into 2017?
Glad you're enjoying the tech demos!
How will the site gain users?During the beta period we are focused on the technical aspects of the site. For the final release we will be focusing on making the site quick, clean, good looking and filled with content. Our main methods of advertising involves viral marketing campaigns and word of mouth. Some key examples of places where we will advertise.
-Torrent and crypto communities letting them know about the service and letting them know why they should participate.
-Bounties to torrenting groups including our site in their release notes (IE: when you click the torrent on other sites it will say "Watch it instantly at purevidz.net")
-Facebook groups for shows/movies letting them know they can watch for free with no downloads on our site.
-Youtube trailers or interviews letting people know they can watch the movie/show for free with no downloads on our site.
-Twitter/facebook/signature campaigns getting users to advertise our service through their social media network to claim VIDZ.
-Real world campaigns where we give users templates for flyers to print out. Take a picture of you posting it at your local campus or community center to claim VIDZ.
-Contacting crypto and traditional media to release press releases regarding the site and how it differs from other torrent/streaming sites.
There's other methods involved but basically it boils down to making sure as many people as possible know about the service and leveraging any initial community we have to grow it exponentially. We are also looking into various special events which could be hosted on the website to drive as much global hype as possible. We have experimented with live streaming via web torrents. If we find someone willing to contribute we could possibly set up a page to live stream a major sports event through the site for example. Gimmicks like that would be a great way to draw attention to the site and its advantages.
How will the site gain contributors?We are already in the process of contacting some torrenting groups to convince them that they should also submit their releases to our site. With torrents generally a group will submit their content to a dozen or more sites to make sure that it is as distributed as possible and will be quick for users wishing to access it. By having them submit to our site we can feed off that existing network while rewarding the uploaders through bounties (both global bounties and specific user placed bounties).
Because of the bounty system, there is no drawback to any existing torrenting group submitting content to our site. They are already doing it for many other sites, adding us to their list simply has the benefit of them earning some money on popular content for their efforts.
We are experimenting with scraping data from other torrent sites to automate the process of adding compatible releases to our site. This technology will improve in the future versions of our site. We prefer the site be as user driven as possible but this will be useful following the 1.0 release to catalog old content that no one might think to submit to the site.
