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Re:Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growi... by spacebear on Monday February 05, 2024 @07:46PM (#39269306)
Are they worse than streaming? I don’t know the math, but it seems like constantly sending the same album over the network would use a lot of energy.
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Re:Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growi... by recursivecaveat on Monday February 05, 2024 @09:11PM (#39269930)
I was interested so I looked up some numbers: $0.3 per kwh in California * .005Gb mp3 (3m at 128kbps) mp3 * .06 kwh/Gb for internet traffic = .00009 dollars in energy to sling 1 song to your device. Heavy margin bands there for the traffic estimate especially, but Spotify probably has a 95%+ cache hit rate so I think they would struggle to come out worse than the physical disc.
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