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		baq 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We accidentally burned through 200GB of proxy band... I downloaded world of Warcraft the other day, 100GB, took less than 3 hours and you can be sure it didn’t cost blizzard $0.05.

roywiggins 11 months ago [–]

Blizzard quite famously used BitTorrent to save bandwidth, dunno if they still do:

https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Blizzard_Downloader

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