BURP News

[AMDave]

BURP is switching to ads
For a while now it has been difficult to run the project due to lack of proper funding. After many attempts at finding a reasonable funding model, or a way of commercializing the user base and the content, it was decided that the only way to move forward would be to show ads on some of our pages.To begin with there will only be a few tiny ads on the web pages themselves, they will be almost invisible. We have made changes to the website to make sure that the ads do not draw all the attention; and we are constantly working with the ad-provider to make sure that all advertisements are relevant and high-quality.Later, the plan is to use ads in the web player used for viewing video previews. Finally - depending on how the ads are received during these initial tests - we have the option of injecting and overlaying ads onto the rendered material itself. This works either as a watermark that you almost do not notice or as single-frame subliminal messages that very few people will perceive consciously.Several different extensions of this model have been proposed:1) Logged in users can pay to temporarily remove the ads for one month2) Artists can pay to have ads removed on anything relating to their sessions. Whenever a new session is uploaded they will naturally have to pay again.3) Video ads can be downloaded and displayed as the BOINC screensaver while rendering is in progress4) We can add bitcoin mining to the clients so that 50% of the farm is used to generate funding at all times

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[NeoGen]

Oh this one is awesome... make sure to open in on the proper page clicking the "More..." link at the end of Dave's post!

[vaughan]

Very clever April Fools!