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Originally Posted by sharphead
Let's put this in perspective people... I was looking at ONE video and it was about 5 minutes in length.. not too long.. but still little too long for my liking.. anyways.... I looked at the "views" number before I refreshed and after.. and for ONE video, it jumped almost 4000 views in 5 minutes...
iframing them/proxy or refreshing them to death won't put a dent in the larger operations, hell i'd be surprised if they even knew that you were doing it or cared at all for that matter.
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well, if the numbers are accurate, I bet those 4000 people probably only watched a few seconds of the video before jumping on to the next one, and that was probably a featured video on the front page, so that ONE video may actually represent a larger proportion of viewers than the rest of the videos on the site
but I agree with you
it will take a pretty big and continuing type of effort on them to achieve the goal
it should be fairly easy to calculate bandwidth costs to see what actual monetary effect any of the plans would cost on them... ie. number of videos streamed vs. bandwidth costs... .it would be interesting to see some numbers from someone that feels like calculating