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Levitz on Aug 14, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Streaming services are driving viewers back to pir...

Supply and demand rules go out the window when the product is infinitely replicable.

gmueckl on Aug 15, 2025 [–]

Digital video is a big enough amount of data that replication at scale takes up a significant amount of netural resources and energy. That is true both for storage and transmission/streaming.

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