I have no reason to divulge details to someone who isn't either a prospective hire or a monied party. Īs with anything technical, the details are the secret sauce. What worries me is that the prices are increasing when I would expect the opposite. Storage price (per TB and month) 2.47 € / $2.93ĭownload bandwidth (per TB) 0.76 €/ $0.90 Right now the portals are free, to promote the service, but that could change.
If you download from a webportal, the webportal pays, and again will monetize however they see fit. If you download from your own Sia node, you pay for the bandwidth. The node that pinned or uploaded a file isn't necessarily the one who pays for the download costs. It's up to the portal operator how they want to monetize the service. Examples might include longer pinning, ads on the website, ads injected on videos/audios being downloaded, paying for extra bandwidth and latency. The webportal operator pays for the file, and may choose to monetize their site a number of ways. You can find a list on the bottom of our official site (which is also a Skynet webportal). There are a number of webportals currently operating on Skynet.
The same is true if you pin a file someone else uploaded to Skynet. The file is being uploaded to your own contract set and will stay online as long as you continue to pay for the file. from your own Sia node, you pay for files you upload to Skynet. I believe these 2 scenarios are non-issues with Skynet, as the cloud automatically maintains a decentralized and healthy redundancy. File hosting services have to take down the data when they are noticed of copyright infringements. Torrents rely on people to keep the content up, but it is very common for old torrents to just die when the redundancy and traffic gets too low. There is a small cost involved in running your own portal however. People could even setup their own personal portals, meaning they could access all the content. If an access portal is struck with a DMCA complaint, they could have to blacklist the link. New access portals are easy to setup and all share the same storage.Īs long as one user has the link pinned (think Pinterest), the file stays online, in the cloud. Upload the file on Skynet and you get a link that can be used on any of the access portals.
Could be a new era for file hosting services.