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Agreed, but to mirror all of youtube is redundant, the vast majority of people only watch the most popular videos. By providing a selection of 'this weeks best' you will surely provide low latency for the majority of files. Similarly ISP's can start doing site caching for popular pages providing lower latencies for popular sites and pages.


In X hundred years people will have their real time mirrors of youtube/(representation-of-reality de jour), in their retina augmentations ;)


you gotta admit, servers on the moon would be the perfect off-site backup.


Well, not quite perfect, you'd actually need a "server got hit by a meteor" contingency plan.


yeah, but you get rid of all those nasty weather-related contingency plans.


Until a solar storm rolls through.




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