Will World Cup Streaming Cause Internet Meltdown?

MetaNick writes "It seems with every worldwide sporting event, e.g., Olympics, World Cup, we hear warnings of a "meltdown" as more and more broadband users attempt to stream video of the event to their browsers. And such predictions have just begun for the World Cup just getting underway: World Cup streaming to cause network meltdown, World Cup by broadband endangers networks. Has this ever really happened? Will it happen with this the World Cup just getting underway? I tend to doubt it. I looked for articles discussing how predictions of meltdowns did NOT come to pass, but I couldn't find any."

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It's soccer, can't we compress it?

[famous actress]

If you've ever watched soccer on television you'd have to wonder if we couldn't implement some sort of soccer-compression algorithm that only sends partial-video frames for the one guy who's looking around deciding where to pass. It seems like an awful shame to waste bits for the six players on the screen that aren't moving.

Let's just say... that I'm doing my part...

[T_ConX]

...By not giving a rats ass about that shitty sport.

However, I will partake in viewing videos of the only redeaming part of soccer... The riots!

Re:No

[slashrogue]

DUH. I mean come on, a former Vice President INVENTED the thing!

Re:Errr QWZX

[Tatsh]

Soccer is horrible! How can anyone watch that?!

Soccer often equates to racism

[rchh]

Soccer is the most popular game in the world, no doubt. But have you seen the monkey chantings and racist chants prevalent in most soccer games. World Series and Super Bowl may not be the biggest sporting event in the world ,but it is certainly without complete Ku-Klux-Klan style sport or a sport of intolerance towards blacks and immigrants.