Das Video-Portal "Opera on Video" wird ab 1. Oktober 2026 über die bisher existierenden 36000 Videos hinaus keine neuen Opernvideos mehr veröffentlichen und stellt am 1. Dezember 2026 den Betrieb vollständig ein. Der Betreiber Flamand Olivier begründet diesen Entscheid so:
"I am 84 and my health and abilities are accordingly. And it is not going to get better. After almost 10 years of running Opera on Video single-handed, it is time for a change to reduce my excessive workload. The website operaonvideo.com is continuously and excessively flooded by hackers, bad bots and website scrapers. It is hit by frequent DOS (Denial of service) attacks which cause severe performance problem and more hard work. This requires a very powerful and expensive infrastructure to be able to cope with the huge amount of server load this causes. It also causes significant technical risks to operate the server. And it is very labor intensive and very expensive to defend against all these attacks. This results in substantial financial burden.
Der Ableger https://www.operaonvideo.ch/ bleibt jedoch bestehen, verlangt aber eine kostenpflichtige neue Registrierung als:
SILVER PREMIUM DONOR - Jahresgebühr 50,- CHF
GOLD PREMIUM DONOR, incl. 10 Downloads - Jahresgebühr 100,- CHF
