The title of this post is taken from a post on Arbor Networks’ site describing what they saw in terms of Internet backbone traffic on inauguration day due to streaming video. The graph shows a peak around noon on January 20 of about 3.5 terabytes per second - approximately 2 petabytes of data over the peak two-hour period.

Interestingly, the many people who watched through cnn.com were using a P2P-based Flash plug-in that has generated some controversy, or at least some concern. On the other hand, talk about a huge, legitimate use of P2P!