Edit: This only refers to costs (paid by the manufacturers), not fees (paid for by the buyers).

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      19 days ago

      With the interpretation of the internet being teleportation of data, your Webbrowser becomes a replicator of data, as e.g. the video that you are streaming from YouTube is merely being copied from its servers, but not deleted from its source.

      In general computers are just copying data, i.e. replicating data.

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      18 days ago

      Ah, yes. That’s why when you upload a photo to facebook, only one friend gets to download it before you have to re-upload it for the next person.