> If you are someone like Vimeo, Hulu, Netflix etc then you would forever be at a disadvantage to Youtube due to bandwidth costs.
No, you are not, because Google happily peers with (almost) everyone. So long as you can get the traffic to one of the 130+ places where google has set up shop, and from there, the traffic is free.
This is much, much better than what Comcast & friends are trying to do, by billing traffic twice (once from the consumers, once from the service providers).
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> If you are someone like Vimeo, Hulu, Netflix etc then you would forever be at a disadvantage to Youtube due to bandwidth costs.
No, you are not, because Google happily peers with (almost) everyone. So long as you can get the traffic to one of the 130+ places where google has set up shop, and from there, the traffic is free.
This is much, much better than what Comcast & friends are trying to do, by billing traffic twice (once from the consumers, once from the service providers).
http://www.peeringdb.com/view.php?asn=15169