Not worth it to hotlink, one day they will discover it and will ban your site. All your work is over in a second. nowadays streaming is very cheap. with 200$ you can have 100TB bandwidth server.
Some sites pays also with embed.
Anyway is your opinion and i respect it but here is what i have see arround on internet.
1) about cost : not everyone have 200$ to spent on servers man.so most people going with cheaper solutions
2) about if discover it, i know site that hotlink ALL his videos from many tube sites and he is alexa 2k ,
the chance to discover it is small...VERY small.and even if some site ban u ( example retube ) u will have all other Hotlinked videos .
work? is all automaticaly i work 5 minutes yesterday and now adding my site videos from Xvideo.....even if they ban me i will not cry for 5 min
what is difference between hotlinking and embedding? aren't they the same?
embed is : when u add video from some source ( xvideos,retube etc ) with THEY player
example code : <ifframe>somecode</iframe>
hotlinking is when u add video from some source and u play video from you OWN player but u not HOST the video
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