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by BigJono 2688 days ago
The big problem with P2P is it doubles the bandwidth cost for the end user. Not a problem if we're talking desktops in countries that aren't 3rd world (or Australia). But most mobile plans still have strict bandwidth limits. If you have 10GB of data a month, do you want to use 1GB to stream a live event for a few hours, or 2GB?