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They don't care about compression or bandwidth when it's you paying for it.
There's also probably next to no storage on device, so it's just constantly fetching and uploading, or just acting as a proxy.
They would still have to store it, wouldn't they?
Not if they just have the device open a socket to the client. At that point you're just being used as a proxy. Your device just acts as the middle man.