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Originally Posted by mgmueller
Even your average HD stream in Netflix only has 5GB tops, as opposed to MKVs starting with 5GB, usually having 10GB and in a 1:1 BlueRay Rip exceed 20GB.
There's certainly your occasional retiree, watching 15 hours of Netflix and reaching the limit of his bandwidth. But the vast majority of users exceeding 100GB per day (and that's not once, that's every single day, else your bandwidth doesn't get capped) only can be pirates.
Yes, my neighbor as a web developer exceeds his limit occasionally. We have the same ISP, so we exchange data about performance, stability and such a lot. Even he, as a power user, will exceed this enormous limit only a few times per month, never on a daily basis.
And if you consider, that ISPs even have changed the small print of their contracts already, this kind of traffic has to be in a significant dimension.
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I have never looked at the statistics of my family's data usage, but I do know that my mother, while the main watcher of Hulu and Netflix etc., is not the only one and a substantial amount is used by other members of the family.
I would simply assume that more than one person was watching stuff.
But perhaps in Europe each member of the family has their own data plan, and it is therefore logical to assume the big users are pirates?
Also, I have heard that Netflix is offering a certain amount of 4K video, and Amazon is set to begin doing the same thing. I assume that would raise the bar as well...