The Internet is going to get a whole lot slower next week
9to5mac.com/2008/01/08/the-internet-is-going-to-get-a-whole-lot-slower-next-week
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However, next week, Apple will almost definitely launch its iTunes movie rental store, and millions of people will start downloading like they never have before. One and a half hour movies can get up to one gigabyte in size. Contrast that to a four megabyte iTunes music file which is 250 times smaller. This is a huge amount of data.