Originally Posted by TidalWave

when theyre paying what i pay for bandwidth, before taking into account the costs of processing their credit card or paypal payment?
then also buying the hardware they "need", but don't want to pay for and want included in their "5,000GB a day" bandwidth commitment?

tell me how adding a loss, generates profit?
the only way it does, is if it lowers your overall cost elsewhere -- like i already said.
but for some hosting companies, they are already getting the lowest price currently available market-wide and don't need to rely on illegal video streaming sites to get their costs lower.