I had this idea, because I was wondering if means.tv or nebula.tv could be made part of the peertube network. These two streaming platforms are paywalled, so it seems like it would not be possible. I don’t use peertube, and I don’t really know anything about it, so excuse my ignorance if the answer seems painfully obvious to you.
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I don’t think there is a plugin available for that, it clashes a bit with the Free Culture idea behind Peertube… But there is a visibility setting for videos. You can protect them with a password and give that to paying subscribers. Or set videos as “unlisted” and sell the links on another platform. Or set them to “internal” and sell accounts for your instance.
I guess the last option you give is essentially what means and nebula do really.
I’m no PeerTube expert, but I don’t see how federation and paywalls can mix. If the content on your paywalled instance is federated with non-paywalled instances, why would anyone pay for access to your instance? It would have to be a “walled garden” of paywalled instances that only peer with each other and have some kind of revenue sharing, which doesn’t sound realistic.
I do something similar to it and it works OK, even though not amazing. I think a lot of schools and organizations do that also.
I upload the videos which should only be available ta a small group which I manage on my instance and mark them as internal. This way users on my instance can watch them but the public on the internet can’t.
You could make a user for people who played a subscription fee only in that case.
Why I say it works OK and not great is because then federation doesn’t work and you would need a new user on each instance you pay for.
lol no
