Which is why, for VLC, we contacted ourselves all the mirrors (+ quite a few new ones), and built our own new mirroring system, that is faster (and more reliabl

Which is why, for VLC, we contacted ourselves all the mirrors (+ quite a few new ones), and built our own new mirroring system, that is faster (and more reliable) than the SF one. The mirrors had no problem with that, since we were already the biggest bandwidth consumer, through SF. Why do the mirrors offer this bandwidth? Well, it depends. Some are universities, some need bandwidth up/down balance (because of interconnections contracts), some are just nice, and some get paid to do it.