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by big_lou 4748 days ago
PEOPLE. This is clearly not intended as a business. Stop asking about the "business model." It strikes me as just being a cool side project that enables people to make websites. That's it.

Yeesh.

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I think you're underestimating the lucrative "disoriented time-traveler" market.
I'm pretty sure that's exactly what it is. This is just for fun, I don't think they are looking for VC money or anything crazy.
As someone who has a 1gb/s flat rate at home, I have thought about doing something similar. It really isn't that expensive to have a bit of network and a server that gives out static content.
Til someone puts something copyright or worse on it.
We were talking about the expenses of running the service, and not the legal space around hosting user generated content.

The legal questions are interesting, through it highly depend on the country and political tendencies from one year to the next. In theory, I could run this kind of service in Sweden, and only remove content on order by a judge. In theory. In practice, there might not be any difference between hosting user generated content and simply having a website up hosting in ones own name.

In other words, Yahoo! will eventually end up buying it.