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This article fails to see the difference between streaming services and p2p downloading. If I want to watch content more than once, I contribute to increased t
by chabes 9y ago
This article fails to see the difference between streaming services and p2p downloading.
If I want to watch content more than once, I contribute to increased traffic every time I stream that content. In other words: Streaming = certain amount of traffic, every time content is viewed.
P2p downloaded content is usually downloaded once, but can be watched infinitely without touching the internet.
The article also fails to touch on the fact that the internet itself is now much more mainstream (especially globally) than it was in 2006.
Of course there's less torrent traffic today than there was in 2006. Streaming services are big for mainstream content that is being consumed by the mainstream. The non-mainstream continue to fill their increasingly cheaper storage devices with downloads. The difference being: they don't contribute to internet traffic every time they consume media.
Kind of renders the article moot for me..