Online Videos: Rely more on Streaming or BitTorrent?

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Comcast's decision to cap monthy broadband usage at 250GB is being decried as the end of the Internet as we know it. Maybe so, but it can also be seen as the dawn of the Streaming Era. As the Olympics drew to a close with big numbers - 75.5 million streams (NBCOlympics.com), 40 million (BBC), another 130 million from the European Broadcasting Union, and 100 million Chinese viewers - the networks were already moving on by serving the Democratic National Convention in HD.

As the video is getting larger (eg. huge size at HD resolution), will we rely more on streaming data than downloading data via BitTorrent?

inspired by: http://www.techcrunch.com...

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	ZiiValue (chance)	MyValue (0% to 100% chance)	()	Possible Outcomes
	78%			rely more on streaming
	22%			rely more on BT

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