&gt; This is exactly how peering and transit setups work across ISPs. The burden is far lower than you describe.<p>Only it&#x27;s not. If you need Internet transit, all you have to do is buy transit from two to three transit providers and you are all set. You&#x27;ll get as big and as fast pipes as you like and at a price cheaper than doing it yourself. There is no need to make bespoke deals with 200 ISPs are there would be if everybody started with this BingeOn crap.<p>&gt; If you&#x27;re a video streaming startup, you&#x27;re not going to be serving content to ISPs. Your CDN is.<p>Only if you are made out of money and&#x2F;or don&#x27;t know what you are doing.<p>&gt; If you&#x27;re attempting to service content directly from your own servers, you&#x27;re either enormous, or stupid.<p>Neither enormous not stupid, just competent. You on the other hand have obviously never done video streaming and don&#x27;t know what you are talking about.