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YouTube Killer (Media Portal w/ Revenue Sharing)

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the sharing-the-money dept.

MattPF writes "eefoof.com is a user-submitted content site similar to YouTube/Google Video which allows users to submit Videos, Images, Flash and Audio while receiving a share of the site's ad revenue. For example, if someone uploads a really popular video that accounts for a lot of traffic in a given month, the user will receive a good portion of the video ad revenue for the month. Could this be the YouTube killer?"

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  1. Lulu.tv by samuel4242 · · Score: 5, Informative

    It looks like several are doing this. The NYT has a story about Lulu.tv today. And it mentions revver.com is doing something similar.

    1. Re:Lulu.tv by vile8 · · Score: 4, Informative

      Lulu.tv is actually all creative commons. So copyrighted materials will not get paid. Stealing an episode of family guy will get you a big fat 0 (unless you created it). We do not endorse copyright infringement, but instead wish to replace it with CC licensing for all. Technically we aren't paying for the shows though either, we are paying based on a bunch of factors which mostly include getting lots of people to come participate in the site.

  2. Re:PHP quality by metarox · · Score: 5, Informative

    The usage of @ degrades performance drastically, you're better off shutting the errors off with ini_set( 'display_errors', 0 ); and having everything go to the log file. OTOH a minimal amount of error checking wouldn't be bad either so you can customize the error messages triggered.

  3. Re:Possibly, by 70Bang · · Score: 4, Informative



    Possibly? But more likely it's a paid ad...

    Has someone been sniffing the fireworks smoke a little early and a bit too much?

    Hover your mouse over MattPE and see what is displayed:

    http://www.eefoof.com/

    Some bonehead (I won't go back and read who the editor was) that let that message go through without checking an obvious connection). I demand a recount on the editorial elections to see if he really received enough votes. Besides, you'd think MattPE would have an id other than eefoof.com when he submitted his message.

    The problem is he's going to get a Slashdot effect just because people are going to jump the gun instead of walking away from his site entirely.