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Even though user generated video sharing sites are tremendously popular, the experience of the user watching videos is often unsatisfactory. Delays due to buffering before and during a video playback at a client are quite common. In this paper, we present a prefetching approach for user-generated video sharing sites like YouTube. We motivate the need for prefetching by performing a PlanetLab-based...