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Re:Netflix Is Responsible for 15% of Global Internet Traffic by throwaway60707 on Thursday August 17, 2023 @03:25PM (#37166695)
Isn't it more like "users of Netflix are responsible for 15% of Internet traffic"? What would Netflix traffic be without its users?

Or are we talking just about their CDN synchronization, and not about the user traffic?

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Re:Netflix Is Responsible for 15% of Global Internet Traffic by schnuri on Thursday August 17, 2023 @03:41PM (#37166899)
A TCP connection has exactly two endpoints. Netflix hypothetically could always decide not to sell their product
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Re:Netflix Is Responsible for 15% of Global Internet Traffic by Terr_ on Thursday August 17, 2023 @05:14PM (#37168180)
> A TCP connection has exactly two endpoints.

Stop, you're hurting the NSA's feelings. :P

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Re:Netflix Is Responsible for 15% of Global Internet Traffic by siggen on Thursday August 17, 2023 @06:30PM (#37169086)
Packet-switched. :P
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Re:Netflix Is Responsible for 15% of Global Internet Traffic by throwaway60707 on Thursday August 17, 2023 @07:19PM (#37169587)
If the client/user doesn't ask to connect, there is no connection.
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