Official Hooktube Thread

Since every other discussion seems to be getting derailed with Hooktube/Anti-hooktube flaming. So type away! I'll start:

Anti-hooktubers, why don't you like Hooktube? Are you incredulous to the legitimacy of such a project? Or do you think it's unethical? Or are you frustrated that there are people using Hooktube and not looking for a true, viable alternative to YouTube?

there will never be a viable alternative to YouTube that's not also run by some giant advertising company. serving videos is outrageously expensive. the only way to even hope to break even is to deliver ads in-house and also use pre-existing infrastructure of server farms around the world.

IPFS or otherwise P2P methods would not work either. it would take hours to years to load a shitty 30 second video, and at that point why not forget the whole interface and just share bittorrent files.

there would have to be some serious advances in infrastructure at the hardware level. if a 1TB/s up/down connection would cost $50/month, then videos, in addition to everything else, could be fully distributed. that doesn't seem likely to happen soon though.