> Or does it stream from some common CDN that keeps track of all this and bills each seller for their share of bandwidth?
You might be overestimating the costs here: it’s a fraction of a penny per GB to deliver.
> Or does some magic happen so that even though I'm playing the movie in the Fandango app, it is actually streaming from Apple servers?
It’s directly from Fandango - there is a shared revenue model + Fandango treats the MA content just as they would any third party content. They acquire source material and ingest it into their catalog as they would from any other studio.
You might be overestimating the costs here: it’s a fraction of a penny per GB to deliver.
> Or does some magic happen so that even though I'm playing the movie in the Fandango app, it is actually streaming from Apple servers?
It’s directly from Fandango - there is a shared revenue model + Fandango treats the MA content just as they would any third party content. They acquire source material and ingest it into their catalog as they would from any other studio.