“People think of video and they think of real time, watching it” as it’s downloading, he said. “But most video doesn’t have to be watched in real time. With TiVo and those other things, it doesn’t have to be watched in real time.

“It doesn’t matter whether it’s delivered by a real-time video stream, or a triple-charge thing that drops packets into a file like BitTorrent. Who cares? At some point, you get the whole file and then you watch it. You don’t care how long it took to get a file before you watch it.”

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