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Why isn't this a licensing deal to established content deliverers? It seems to only alleviate provider cost. If this actually does solve a problem, why wouldn

• erikpukinskis 10y ago
  Cost has totally different determinants at different scales. At the smallest scales, fixed costs overwhelm variable costs. As you scale up and architectural needs change, there are steps in the cost function. Just because something is cost effective at one scale doesn't mean it's cost effective at all scales. Personally, I think peer to peer streaming is most interesting for open source projects. You can host static code for free and then use something like this to do streaming. The developer pays nothing, and bandwidth fees are born entirely by the user.