More Bandwidth and Revenue Needed

Org Profile · Post by **Phade** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 12:17 am

Hey,

Here is a chart of the download usage statistics for the month of Aug:

The X-axis is the number of times an individual video has been downloaded. The pink (barely visible) line is the number of videos that have had that number of downloads. The dark blue line is the sum of downloads at that level. The area under the blue line represents the amount of bandwidth used.

The graph shows that there are a large number of videos getting a few downloads and a few videos getting lots of downloads. The amount of bandwidth used by videos that get less than around 200 downloads per month are (by me eyeballing it) causing two-thirds of the bandwidth usage.

To me, this means that bittorrent is not a good candidate for video distribution in our case since there are lots of files getting few downloads causing the bulk of the bandwidth usage.

I hope this helps.

Phade.

loganwolvy · Post by **loganwolvy** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 11:15 am

I see that the ads are in place on the download pages.

How are they working thus far? Any help?

~Q

celibi87 · Post by **celibi87** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 1:07 pm

could there be a way that after two years a vid can get deleted. give a warning first of course but that could save on bandwith.

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 1:11 pm

celibi87 wrote:could there be a way that after two years a vid can get deleted. give a warning first of course but that could save on bandwith.

Two things:

(1) This would only help save bandwidth if deletion was carried out only on the most popular videos.

(2) You'd have to be dense to do that.

Rurounikeitaro · Post by **Rurounikeitaro** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 2:21 pm

celibi87 wrote:could there be a way that after two years a vid can get deleted. give a warning first of course but that could save on bandwith.

Would you really want your old precious first AMV to be taken off the site?

pen-pen2002 · Post by **pen-pen2002** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 4:48 pm

Just had a quick thought: What about larger PM inbox/sentboxes?

considsering the amount of posts you could fit into the size of a video there does not seem like it makes that big a difference. Increasing the space for donators might be a nice perk. (I try to keep it cleaned out but I'm to lazy to keep it up and I always hit 100%)

AmyCool86 · Post by **AmyCool86** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 8:07 pm

Well, how about people purchase their own bandwidth on their account? On [Kalium: Link to site with downloads removed.] when you join the site, then become a Naruto Plus member, you'll have to pay a fee each month to stay the member. Once you've become a plus member, you automatically get some bandwidth for free and when you used up your bandwidth, you'll have to purchase more in order to download the things off the website. Something like what I said. Maybe you should look into it because maybe this way, people will donate more.

dokool · Post by **dokool** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 8:24 pm

AmyCool86 wrote:Well, how about people purchase their own bandwidth on their account? On [Kalium: Link to site with downloads removed.] when you join the site, then become a Naruto Plus member, you'll have to pay a fee each month to stay the member. Once you've become a plus member, you automatically get some bandwidth for free and when you used up your bandwidth, you'll have to purchase more in order to download the things off the website. Something like what I said. Maybe you should look into it because maybe this way, people will donate more.

Because that's the equivalent to paying for the right to download, which Phade is against. We've gone over this already...

Coderjo · Post by **Coderjo** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 9:46 pm

Hmm.. Within the month of august, Animix was downloaded 768 times, using a total of 557GB of bandwidth. There are 10 videos that, in August alone, used over 100GB apiece. Perhaps BitTorrent might be worthwhile for very popular vids. All but three of the top ten bandwidth users from August had over 1000 downloads.

Thank you, (someone), for providing the statistics.

BasharOfTheAges · Post by **BasharOfTheAges** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 12:47 pm

BasharOfTheAges wrote:
This is why i feel it's far more likely that if Phade was ever served, he'd be far more likely to be asked for member records. Spicifically for the info regarding contributers who are financially backing illegal activities. Since that may figure into the reasoning behind some people not donating, i'd like to hear his stance on that.

By donating money you could be implicated and even if it's a bogus charge, it all goes back to the question: will you settle, or give up everything you have to fight it legally?

According to the Org's privacy policy...

The administrators of this site will cooperate with law enforcement officials if presented with a court order requiring such cooperation as to reveal your information to them.

Since nobody really responded to this the last time i brought it up, does nobody see this as an issue or possibly a reason why people might not donate?

Are records even kept?

Should donations be made ambigously so that reasonable doubt is placed upon the identity of the donator in relation to the account holder? (i.e. if they are the same person or not) or , alternatively, should members refrain from showing their real identies by means of provinding email acounts under assumed names?

Can site administration even answer these questions in a public forum without fear it may be used as evidence?

Can you believe it's not butter?