Can Someone 'splain to me why it is that even the shabbiest porno website

run out of some guys garage in Panorama City, has known for years how to stream a video, in any format you like, but the combined technological genius and multi-million dollar budgets of Google, The Disney Company, NBC, CBS, Clearchannel, and especially YouTube, just can't make it work?

I think we should be able to bill these companies every time we see 7/8 of a video and it just stops downloading, I think $10 is fair. If we could get that law passed, I'd bet we wouldn't have any more problems seeing their product.

However, you do have a put as well. :)

has moved on to bigger and more deserving fish.

porn's more important? :shrug:

The porn website is using an unregistered copy of a shareware program written by an undergraduate college student (probably a Democrat) that the website got running years ago and never upgraded.

The big commercial video sites always use the latest registered version of software that is constantly upgraded, registered, licensed, and paid for. The commercial video websites also follow the Patriot Act and record the IP address, time of day, and videos watched for reporting to the bush's homeland security people.

The porn website couldn't care less about reporting to homeland security.

Most porn sites display video through WC3 standardized code that will open the player software residing on the user's machine.

While the others you listd have 50,000 viewers.

With 500,000 porn sites to choose from, but only ONE YouTube - well, the problem should be obvious.

(e-bay, amazon, etc.) site is pornacess.com. youTube and the network media sites don't even show up in the top 100, internationally or domestically.

:think:

I'm not saying it isn't as you say, but it would certainly seem weird to me.

I know Alexa for example is not an accurate of measuring website traffic, but YouTube has been firmly in the first places for several months now... it would be very strange for it not to be in the top 10 for example.

I'll dig it out of the history. It is just a global traffic monitor site and lists the top 100 sites in total and by country. It is definitely not Alexa, though.

http://toolbar.netcraft.com/stats/topsites

All kinds of vaguely interesting stats on major site clusters.

You have to download a toolbar in order for your stats to count in... just like Alexa.

I don't think it is very accurate. For example, I'm Costa Rican, and I can guarantee you that the most visited sites in the country are NOT gambling sites.
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/stats/topsites?c=CR

9021 https://www.pokerroom.com October 2001 Safepay Int. S.R.L. Go CR
11162 http://www.unibet.net December 2001 Cyberfuel S.A. Go CR
13550 http://www.pokerroom.com March 1996 Safepay Int. S.R.L. Go CR
16383 http://www.pokerstars.com April 2001 Rational Enterprises Go CR
18234 http://www.bodog.com January 2001 Bodog Entertainment Group SA Go CR
18499 https://www.europoker.com January 2006 Safepay Int. S.R.L. Go CR
23366 http://www.europoker.com November 2005 Safepay Int. S.R.L. Go CR
27995 https://www.bodog.com June 2001 Bodog Entertainment Group SA Go CR
29687 https://www.unibet.net February 2006 Cyberfuel S.A. Go CR
32808 https://www.mrbookmaker.com September 2001 Cyberfuel S.A. Go CR
38179 http://www.allsportsmarket.com June 2003 Portalz.net Go CR
48370 https://www.holdempoker.com November 2004 Safepay Int. S.R.L. Go CR


Compare that, with the Alexa ranking for Costa Rica:
http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_sites?cc=CR&ts_mode=country&lang=none

1. MSN
2. Hi5
3. Google Costa Rica
4. Yahoo
5. Windows Live
6. Google
7. YouTube
8. Megaupload
9. Wikipedia
10. MySpace
11. Microsoft
12. La Nación
13. Rapidshare
14. Passport.net
15. RACSA
16. Blogger
17. Google España
18. Navegalo.com
19. Al Día
20. eBay

every one that I've found is a subscription service, or sample, based on some form of software that has to be actively participated in. The skewing is obvious because the results vary so widely from source to source.

I find it hard to believe that somebody hasn't polled a large sample of major nodes to see where people are going.

a video and then just decide to stop and you have to reload the whole thing to see the last bit.

YouTube delivers video via Flash. Flash does not stream. Flash pre-loads and then plays. Perhaps the problem has more to do with the particular videos your are viewing. Maybe they were not compressed properly when the YouTuber uploaded them to the YouTube server.

and leads technology advances :evilgrin:

why do these corporations have such a hard time implementing it?

This is symptomatic of why I got the hell out of the IT business, cheap is always better than good even when cheap now just means paying way more down the road, Just drives me nutz!

ETA: as long as I'm bitching, I hate KPOJ, my local AA affiliate and home of Thom Hartman, they use the shit streaming app from clearchannel and I have to listen to the local show 20 seconds at a time, ARGHH! They won't even respond to e-mails. Once his national show starts at 9, I switch to the Phoenix station which doesn't seem to have any problem at all maintaining a connection through winamp.

After all, I love watching Bill Maher's "New Rules" each week on there for free.

As for the 7/8, yeah it sucks, but if you want to see everything, buy the entire movie

Works for me. :)

:)