{"id":5340,"date":"2016-01-25T16:15:07","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T16:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/\/?p=5340"},"modified":"2016-01-12T16:20:23","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T16:20:23","slug":"linked-over-70-of-north-american-traffic-is-now-streaming-video-and-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/01\/25\/linked-over-70-of-north-american-traffic-is-now-streaming-video-and-audio\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;Over 70% Of North American Traffic Is Now Streaming Video And Audio&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandvine.com\/pr\/2015\/12\/7\/sandvine-over-70-of-north-american-traffic-is-now-streaming-video-and-audio.html\">via Sandvine:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>With the growth of video, BitTorrent share continues to see a decline in fixed access bandwidth share, and now accounts for only 5% of total traffic in North America. Last year during the same period it accounted for over 7%<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Step 1 is getting people off BitTorrent. Once commercial streaming services take off as they have been, then come the price-hikes. By 2020, people will be paying for streaming content what they today today for their cable package and most of these services will be littered with pre-roll or post-roll ads or just product placement. We&#8217;ve traded one Hell (cable-TV) with another. Once people realize how painful and expensive streaming services have become, BitTorrent will probably see a resurgence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via Sandvine: With the growth of video, BitTorrent share continues to see a decline in fixed access bandwidth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"2016-03-17T02:03:15Z","apple_news_api_id":"5df6fac2-3c95-4ec8-ad19-8fd7fe81b8c5","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2016-03-17T02:03:15Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AXfb6wjyVTsitGY_X_oG4xQ","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1o8","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5922,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/07\/10\/linked-securing-a-bittorrent-sync-ec2-instance\/","url_meta":{"origin":5340,"position":0},"title":"LInked: &#8220;Securing a BitTorrent Sync EC2 Instance&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"July 10, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"via Ash Furrow: I\u2019ve been trying to move away from online services that allow easy mass surveillance. 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Hulu\u2019s library is garbage; nobody needs Hulu. Yet the best content* service in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7047,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/09\/05\/linked-apple-kills-off-ipod-nano-and-ipod-shuffle\/","url_meta":{"origin":5340,"position":4},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Apple Kills Off iPod Nano and iPod Shuffle&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"September 5, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"via Daring Fireball: I\u2019m sure there are still tens of millions of these iPods in use, and will be for years to come. They\u2019re great for working out. 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