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Netflix sued by South Korean ISP after Squid Game fans swell traffic to '1.2Tbps'

Alan Brown Silver badge

"The problem here is that the Internet is a hugely inefficient way to deliver television to millions of people compared to broadcasting radio-waves, and that's not going to change any time soon."

Clifford Stoll made the very same point in Silicon Snake Oil about 25 years ago

And there is a solution for broadcasting: Multicast/mbone - which ISPs ignored

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