• tyler@programming.dev
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    9 hours ago

    Uhhh. Downloading a full video file is much more resource intensive than watching a video on YouTube. YouTube uses compression, bitrate, etc to limit how much data is sent. Pirating sites can’t do that, they have to send the full file.

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        5 hours ago

        In what way would I be trolling. A full video file, say you’re watching the Olympics, will be tens of gigabytes. That same file streamed will be maybe 200mb after compression and bit rate changes for your browser.