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Re:Tell HN: Amazon now owns 3.0.0.0/8 by leereeves on Thursday November 08, 2018 @09:10PM (#18411864)
There's also the argument that few people want it, because multicast is only useful for synchronized streams.

Netflix, Spotify, and other services with on-demand content couldn't use it unless they made the service worse by forcing viewers to wait for a multicast.

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Re:Tell HN: Amazon now owns 3.0.0.0/8 by rolandog on Friday November 09, 2018 @10:36AM (#18415141)
I bet they'd still have significant savings if they made everyone wait in 5-second lapses.

Pausing and resuming elsewhere would mean changing to a different multicast stream or starting a new one if there weren't any before.

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