Youtube*

Youtube, state of the art entertainment provider, the host of billions of videos produced by millions of people of various diversity, skin colour, professionals, amateurs alike. The quantity of videos to be handled and processed by the company goes by the millions each day. It is really amazing to see how they could handle these problems so well and properly while still ensuring that they are earning despite not charging people for viewing the videos.

Youtube deals with so many videos each day. So, how do they actually make sure that these videos are legal? How did they manage to store so many video files on their systems? The files we are talking here are EACH in the hundreds of megabytes. And they receive 100 over of such files in a minute! Just imagine how much space they need just to store all this files, an the super high cost they have to bear for them! How again, could they make sure that the videos that the users upload are legal? A copyright lawsuit would, definately cost them millions of dollars!

Thanks awefully, the smart people in youtube checks and convert each and every file from the original format, to the default format, FLV. The idea of flv is such that, although the quality is not very good due to the loss of image information, it only takes a very small file size, with reasonable quality. They, too, check each file using frame checks to make sure the files uploaded are legal. Apart of frame check, they also do colour differentiation, to make sure the files are genuine and original.

Even business wise, they are clever to collaborate with various network providers to make sure that they do not need to store all the files within their own systems. Apart from that , the collaboration also makes loading of the videos faster! The ingenious way of earning via advertisements too, generate a large amount of profit for them.

To earn without loss, yet providing good entertainment to the society.
kudos to the Youtube!

By: Byron and Geck Keat

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