Yes, but that model only really works for piracy sites, and only ones with closed access[0], where you can maintain an internal ledger of who seeded what. On an actual streaming service where you have to pay for your TV shows or movies, the cost of video distribution will be dwarfed by the cost to license or produce that video. If you actually tried this on a premium video site you'd be charging $15/mo and then giving most people back a few pennies for their bandwidth.
Free-of-charge video might seem like a better fit, but that market was totally cornered by Google and YouTube; who basically have as much bandwidth as they could ever want. Yes, you can get around that with PeerTube, but there are so many other entirely unrelated advantages YouTube has over everyone else that this doesn't really confer much of a benefit.
[0] Interestingly, the FTP topsite scene would stick their nose up at even private BitTorrent trackers as not closed enough.
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Yes, but that model only really works for piracy sites, and only ones with closed access[0], where you can maintain an internal ledger of who seeded what. On an actual streaming service where you have to pay for your TV shows or movies, the cost of video distribution will be dwarfed by the cost to license or produce that video. If you actually tried this on a premium video site you'd be charging $15/mo and then giving most people back a few pennies for their bandwidth.
Free-of-charge video might seem like a better fit, but that market was totally cornered by Google and YouTube; who basically have as much bandwidth as they could ever want. Yes, you can get around that with PeerTube, but there are so many other entirely unrelated advantages YouTube has over everyone else that this doesn't really confer much of a benefit.
[0] Interestingly, the FTP topsite scene would stick their nose up at even private BitTorrent trackers as not closed enough.