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A comment on Ask HN: Video streaming is expensive yet YouTube "seems" to do it for free. How?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Video streaming is expensive yet YouTube "seems" ... by vundercind on Sunday May 19, 2024 @05:57PM (#40410056)
Price business pipes where they won’t cut you off for saturating that 24/7.

[edit] and that have good deliverability worldwide, no weird paths to other consumer IPs that intermittently fail to route or inexplicably have dial-up transfer speeds. And have anything like a real SLA.

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Re:Ask HN: Video streaming is expensive yet YouTube "seems" ... by swiftcoder on Monday May 20, 2024 @10:13AM (#40415673)
I don't think they legally can in number of European jurisdictions. This isn't like Comcast overselling their copper cables - brand new fiber paid for by the EU comes with certain obligations.
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