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Comment on Ask HN: Why don't many video hosting companies adopt PeerTube or P2P?

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My internet is a gigabit down and like 30mbit (or maybe 15mb?) up. I really don’t want that upload bandwidth being used by some p2p thing unless it is a torrent seed I specifically allow.

I would never want some random hypothetical YouTube / peertube / Spotify users hogging my precious upload bandwidth. I need that tiny slice of upload for backups, conference calls, and gaming.

My friend, however, lived in an area that offered fully symmetrical gigabit fiber internet. Dirt cheap too ($60/mo). We’d use his Plex server all the time to stream HD or even 4K content right from a PC in his office. It was awesome!

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