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Fair enough, let's use dvd rips as a metric instead. They tend to begin at 700MB.

So by reading this article on PC gamer you've now downloaded the equivalent of a full-length movie worth of low quality code and ads.



700MB, that's a CD. ~70 minutes of music, uncompressed.

A DVD (single layer) holds about 4.7GB of data.


You can easily get compressed episodes of a TV show that are 250MB, so it's like watching a TV series at the rate of 2 episodes every 5 minutes. Obviously better quality is in the range 500MB-1.5GB for a 45-minute episode, so even being generous it's 20 minutes of compressed TV or 70 minutes of uncompressed music every 5 minutes.

Just for ads on a website.


Yes, as I understand it, the ~700 MiB "standard" was derived from the capacity of a CD. A rip is definitionally a copy that lacks some of the original data of the source media.


DVDs were in the 4-5GB range.

700MB “rips” are heavily compressed with modern codecs.




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