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[โ€“] CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And what would those "multiple reasons" be? Where is OP storing 400TB worth of downloads?

[โ€“] Eheran@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Why would you put it in "? Do you think those are not going to be really and/or multiple?

We are talking about a monthly average upload of something like 100 Mbit/s, which of worth about constantly streaming 2 movies at 50 G. The peaks during prime time are multiples of that, realistically exceeding 1 GB/s, since most people stream evening/night. Then he would need to be streaming tons of movies, making him a prime target for a big lawsuit. Instead, if he just downloads and seeds some files, you get a near constant throughput. Linux, Tor node, or some mixture of all of that. But not a streaming service for a dozens of people.