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Re:455 Tb of live streaming were transferred during the Olym... by zbobet2012 on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @05:18PM (#12347749)
A 2Mbps profile (what they mentioned) is about 900Megabytes/hour. They use ABR (hls) so, most likely there _average_ bitrate is actually only 1.5Mbps. That means about 675 MB per hour. Which means about 600k hours where consumed by this relatively small Brazilian streaming service.

Your math is wayyyyyy off.

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