Plays (streaming or watching audio/video content) count toward bandwidth usage, but they do not count toward download limits.
When a customer streams a file, data is transferred from Sky Pilot’s servers to the customer’s device in real time, which uses bandwidth. However, streaming does not create a “download event,” so it does not reduce or affect the number of allowed downloads for that file.
To make it clear:
- Streaming / plays → counts toward bandwidth usage
- Streaming / plays → does NOT count toward download limits
- Downloads → count toward both bandwidth usage and download limits
This applies only to Sky Pilot-hosted video and audio files. For third-party providers such as Vimeo, Wistia, or Sprout, bandwidth usage is handled by those platforms instead of Sky Pilot.
