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The real victim here is institutions can no longer operate transparent caches.

For example, I have seen a 800 bed hospital in a rural area get very far with a relatively weak (but best it could get) Internet connection by having transparent caching.

Colleges with dorms, even in non-rural areas safe huge amounts of bandwith this way too.




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