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I don’t think “beaming 4k video around the world” is really an issue at all.

The way the internet works, with peering etc. bandwidth is super, super cheap. It’s basically too cheap to meter. AWS bandwidth pricing has no relationship to actual bandwidth costs and never did.

Netflix has for years been operating open connect, basically they place proxy servers with ISPs (effectively a peering type arrangement). In 2021 Netflix said they spent $1B worldwide on open connect over the previous 10 years. But they spent $19B last year on “cost of revenue” which basically means content.

$20B a year on content. $0.1B a year on their CDN. I can’t imagine Disney, Comcast, etc is much different.