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Comment by charcircuit

7 months ago

>Content delivery costs a lot for streaming services.

The hard disk space to store an episode of a show is $0.01. With peering agreements, the bandwidth of sending the show to a user is free.

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pixl97  7 months ago

>With peering agreements bandwidth of sending the show to a user is free.

I'm not sure why you think this, but it's one of the oddest things I've seen today.

The more streams you can send from a single server the lower your costs are.

  • charcircuit  7 months ago

    Sure, but buying a server is not buying bandwidth. The point of my post is to counter the narrative that streaming video is very expensive.