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I dislike how it says "if anybody stole it". Piracy isn't stealing, it's copyright infringement. I'm still curious about the bandwidth costs. 110, 000 people i
by omouse 15y ago
I dislike how it says "if anybody stole it". Piracy isn't stealing, it's copyright infringement.
I'm still curious about the bandwidth costs. 110, 000 people is 110, 000 gigabytes which is 110 Tb of bandwidth. How much does that cost??
Also, since some of the torrenters did indeed pay for the video, they can be included as profit and they didn't add to the bandwidth costs. They were also a small amount, 10k is listed as the number of downloaders on one site. That's 10,000 out of 120,000 people who downloaded using torrents. That's around 8.3% That's really not bad at all and I'm thinking that this is the case for many things. And like I said, some of those people did pay for the video which bumps that percentage down; I would say down to 8% if you're a pessimist, and down to 5% if you're an optimist ;-)
Anyway, piracy isn't a problem here. I hope other people do this because it cuts down on the middlemen who are a constant drain of society.
- staunch 15y agoIt's on S3, so rounded up to 200TB (multiple downloads, etc) it's around $15k. You could distribute it for significantly cheaper than that, but it's still a relatively low portion of revenue.
- omouse 15y ago$15k extra might make him bitch less about piracy, especially when it's bittorrenting that saves those costs! ;) It looks like lots of companies are using it for software patch distribution (Blizzard, Facebook, Twitter).
- eof 15y ago110TB is ~10k on amazon s3 edit: looks like i was beat to it; and didn't include multiple downloads. to add some value 110TB is $9213.68 200TB is $14640.90
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