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by Olipro 2052 days ago
Well, there is.

Say I'm an ISP with X million subscribers.

Given a peering with Y GBit of throughput to someone like say, Twitch or Facebook; with multicast, I now only end up with a single load of data for each livestream coming over the pipe.

However, this does require direct peerings. Multicast over the Internet is just not a thing. This could technically be built out with IPv6, but nobody's realistically going to arrange for globally-unique multicast space allocations and convince every AS in the world to start peering multicast over BGP for general public use.