This is the only point I was going to make. You're all doing a fine job of debating the other politics. But make no mistake: your videos are melting the ice caps. A McKinsey study this year estimated that data centers will be bigger polluters than airlines by 2020.
See: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/01/data-centers-are-becoming- big-polluters-study-finds/ or http://tinyurl.com/datapollution Streaming video and audio make up 20%+ of all internet traffic. Half of that (10%+ of all traffic) is YouTube. P2P makes up 40%+. It's a resource like anything else. You can switch to Solar Powered hosting - via someone like AISO.net or SolarEnergyHost.com Dreamhost use the more debatable carbon credits. But none of your video hosts like Blip or YouTube or Vimeo are green in any way, as far as I know. Correct me if I'm wrong. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 10-Nov-08, at 3:00 AM, Adrian Miles wrote: On 10/11/2008, at 1:36 AM, Jay dedman wrote: > Limiting the size of my video is NOT like polluting less with a > gasoline car. > It may be nice to keep videos small so anyone around the world can > watch it, but this is NOT a proper scientific comparison. > no it's not, and like all analogies it breaks once it's pushed. On the other hand broadband is a material infrastructure, and those cables are derived from petrochemicals, and the power we need to drive google and our server farms etc really are polluting. I mean this quite literally. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
