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The era of cheap streaming is officially over (www.cnn.com)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

I mean anyone who didn't see this coming is naive as fuck.

No infrastructure overhead, server cost to be sure but the brunt of the delivery being born by the end consumer and the possibility of tracking and metrics in real time?

The only reason it's taken this long is the suits are luddites.