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> > That might be worse for download operators, because people may
> > download
> > an hour of video, and only watch 5 minutes :/
> So, from that standpoint, making a video file available for download
> is wasting order of 90% of the bandwidth used
> to download it.
Considering that this is supposed to be a technically
oriented list, I am shocked at the level of ignorance
of networking technology displayed here.
Have folks never heard of content-delivery networks,
Akamai, P2P, BitTorrent, EMule?
--Michael Dillon
