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Re:PeerTube 1.0: A decentralized video hosting network, base... by austinheap on Monday October 15, 2018 @01:04PM (#18221482)
That's kinda the whole point of PeerTube: the people watching your video also become peers in the WebTorrent swarm so no one party ends up eating 100% of the bandwidth cost. To use your example: if "if a million people want to download my videos in 4K" then you will have a LOT of peers in that swarm. The more peers in a swarm the less likely _any_ PeerTube instance will have to serve _any_ video content at all.

TLDR; popular videos are the most likely to have little-to-no bandwidth cost for the content creator/instance admins.

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