[Darmody]

I think that too.

I watched today a couple hours of Youtube videos. How many bots are needed to match that much traffic?

if we're talking about requests it makes sense. I just have to open my apache/nginx logs to see how many bots are attempting to get in.

[dualboot]

I'm not defending the validity of this article but it is very rare that Netflix, Youtube, or any other stuff backed by the big CDNs(Content Delivery Networks) cross actual metered transit connections(for the networks, not including what the end user has to pay for their servivces.)