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0 pointsmatheusmoreira4y ago0 comments

> let the audience help you by handling a share of the load

So why should we help these for-profit corporations? We're supposed to just donate our bandwidth to them? Are we getting a discount in exchange or are they just gonna pocket their bandwidth cost savings at our expense?

Seeding internet archive data is one thing. Letting corporations invisibly take advantage of resources we pay for is a completely different matter.

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Retric4y ago· 3 in thread

Pass some of the savings in to the customer via lower prices and it’s a win win.

Alternatively, enabling P2P gives faster downloads. That’s rarely noticeable with streaming but people often want to download stuff for offline viewing.

matheusmoreiraOP4y ago

> Pass some of the savings in to the customer via lower prices

Does that ever happen? They'll probably keep prices exactly the same.

zrm4y ago

If they have lower costs, some companies will exist that otherwise couldn't. Then you get options that wouldn't exist and more competition drives down prices.

Retric4y ago

It happens constantly in IT, look at CDN prices per GB over time for example.

It’s only the extreme prevalence of monopolies and free services that confuses the issue.

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