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This is evidently not true. Streaming services are a dime a dozen but their distribution of bit volume is not even. Netflix is far and away the biggest user of bits on the Internet and other streaming services are an order of magnitude smaller.

It's possible that if Netflix didn't exist someone would fill that vacancy but it's also possible that the aggregate total volume of bits transferred during streaming would be lower if Netflix did not exist.




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