Para discussão: O file hosting de conteúdo multimídia é rentável? caso mediacrush

Navegando por internet me entere de este sitio que ahora ya esta offline les voy a poner la url de cache para que medio vean...

MediaCrush

me llamo mucho la atención de este sitio por que pone el codigo en opensource:

https://github.com/MediaCrush/MediaCrush/

Este sitio tiene muchos features que otra sitios de hosting no dan por ejemplo:

For example, when you upload a GIF animation, it will convert it into a losslessly compressed video (OGV or WEBM) and then show the video on your site. A 998KB GIF I tried was compressed down to a 295KB OGV video, a 338% improvement. This has the added advantage of allowing users to pause the animation at any point. If you download the file, MediaCrush will serve you the original GIF image.

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Anonymous Sharing with MediaCrush » Linux Magazine

Extenciones para chrome y firefox, clientes desktop para windows etc etc ...

Al final de el sitio murio .. por que ?

Aquí esta porque segun el creador

On the profitability of image hosting websites

En resumen:

This trend is observable with PhotoBucket, ImageShack, TinyPic, the list goes on. The conclusion I’ve drawn from this is that it is impossible to run a profitable image hosting service without sacrificing what makes your service worthwhile.

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