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Plus Disney could just get the local ISPs to run the edge hardware for them.



Maybe. When Netflix tried that, Comcast tried to charge them for peering.


It's a tug of war. Disney could route their traffic via their T1s where the Australian ISPs also have to pay to receive the traffic. Who can pay longer? And if there is a working market of ISPs the ones with peering or caches in their network can use the superior Disney+ experience in their advertisement.


And famously succeeded.




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