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Old 10-10-2006, 10:10 PM  
KrisKross
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Originally Posted by EdgeXXX View Post
Maybe I'm tired and still trying to wake up or something, but that article makes absolutely zero sense. First it says "Meanwhile (YouTube's) bandwidth costs, which increase every time a visitor clicks on a video, may be approaching $1 million a month--much of which goes to provider Limelight Networks., then a little later in the article they say "Industry observers estimate that YouTube, which is streaming 40 million videos and 200 terabytes of data per day, may be paying between a tenth of a cent and half a cent per minute" (which comes out to around $2,628/yr). WTF? Could those 2 figures be any further apart?
The paragraph talks about sites typically paying one cent per minute of video streamed. They estimate that YouTube pays .1 - .5 cents per minute of video streamed.
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