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		kijin on Dec 5, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 'Everyone in US under virtual surveillance' - NSA ... Also note that the majority of bandwidth nowadays is spent on videos and similar multimedia content. So if they notice that 100M people are watching Bieber's latest music video, they just need to store the YouTube URL. No need to store 100M copies of the video itself.

kabdib on Dec 5, 2012 [–]

Why do you assume the same URL retrieves the same data every time? :-)

ynniv on Dec 5, 2012 | [–]

Why do you think that a massive block level deduplication system would care?

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