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Re:YouTube (Un)Blocks Blender Videos by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Friday June 22, 2018 @07:40AM (#17373185)
How well does that work when a video isn't very popular though? The value of a thing like youtube is that anybody can put a video on there and it will be available for anybody else to play, instantly, for the foreseeable future.
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Re:YouTube (Un)Blocks Blender Videos by raziel2p on Friday June 22, 2018 @08:26AM (#17373401)
I imagine the non-popular videos are sent directly from central servers. By offloading the most popular spikes to P2P maybe they're able to reduce costs enough to make it worth it.
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