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Re:Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 800Gb/s and Beyond [pdf] by jedberg on Friday August 19, 2022 @02:12PM (#32524354)
The constraint is profit. Sure, with unlimited money you can just keep getting more and more servers. But that costs money. It would end up swamping any profit to be made.

By creating this optimized system, it makes serving that much video profitable.

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Re:Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 800Gb/s and Beyond [pdf] by rakoo on Friday August 19, 2022 @03:27PM (#32525088)
No, the constraints is only you serve content. But once the content is distributed, anyone else can also distribute it.
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Re:Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 800Gb/s and Beyond [pdf] by yibg on Friday August 19, 2022 @03:36PM (#32525169)
And break the profit and also probably legal constraints. Good job now you don’t have a company anymore.
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Re:Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 800Gb/s and Beyond [pdf] by jedberg on Friday August 19, 2022 @03:30PM (#32525117)
I'm curious as to who you think would pay for the video if anyone could distribute it and watch it.
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