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by amelius 2458 days ago
> A single user listening to a 128kbps stream, non-stop for a month, would use about 300GB of transfer. Just one user!

Is that how broadcasting works on the internet?

Is there not a more efficient non-proprietary protocol for broadcasting on the internet?

2 comments

I remember some years ago that people were pirating radio stations through a peer-to-peer streaming client, but I can't remember what it was called and I never looked at the internals.
Sopcast?
I dunno, but thanks for the recommendation.
I was thinking more about something at the same level as TCP/IP.
bittorrent