There's something about this article, it kind of feels like a sequence of staccato thoughts. It feels like it kind of jumps around.
Netflix: What Happens When You Press Play?
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#12Many of the things Netflix does here google does too and has been doing for a long time like GGC (Google Global Cache) for free at ISP NOC or datacenters - their GGC nodes are many orders of magnitude time is distribution. 90% of the Google traffic through these devices are youtube videos. They mention it in the article like Netflix pioneered this idea with open-connect. If anything it's harder to get OC devices from…
That sounds a bit like a violation of net neutrality avant la lettre.
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#13What happens when i press play? It checks DRM settings in my browser and gets me lowest quality because my browser is open source. That is what happens.
You have the freedom to watch something else
And content creators have the freedom to choose where they distribute content, many of whom choose Netflix.
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#14> Netflix has more than 110 million subscribers.
> Netflix operates in more than 200 countries
The five largest public torrent trackers track 30-50 million peers at any given time, serving over 10 million torrents. Torrents are estimated to have over a quarter of a billion active users. Torrents can be streamed, and in the end you have a DRM free copy of the file that you can rewatch at your pleasure, on any device(adding custom subtitles if you need them). It amazes me how much effort has been expended on pushing malware to almost everybody(binary, unauditable blobs in every browser) solely so that massive cartels can make money on something that has been solved since 2001.
Subscribing to Netflix, or any other proprietary streaming (dis)service is not only foolish(in the sense of surrendering your own freedom, not to mention your hard earned money to nefarious corporate interests), but deeply unethical.
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#15It ticks to 25% loaded even though your internet is down.
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#16> Netflix has more than 110 million subscribers. > Netflix operates in more than 200 countries The five largest public torrent trackers track 30-50 million peers at any given time, serving over 10 million torrents. Torrents are estimated to have over a quarter of a billion active users. Torrents can be streamed, and in the end you have a DRM free copy of the file that you can rewatch at your pleasure, on any device(a…
> not to mention your hard earned money to nefarious corporate interests
Yes, this is the basis of our society. I work for money to buy things, mostly from corporations. There's nothing nefarious about that.
I find it really hard to believe that paying for content is unethical.
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#17I know what it does when I don't press play: fills my memory with a boatload of bloated interface that has the shittiest navigation of any media player I've ever used. And I still can't just view a list of all series/movies by date.
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#18> I pulled this chapter together from dozens of sources that were at times somewhat contradictory. Facts on the ground change over time and depend who is telling the story and what audience they're addressing. You know old time journalists had a solution to this. Interviewing subjects with first hand knowledge. I know I rag on highscalability a lot, but I feel like they deserve it. They've written multiple articles a…
I am all for video-on-demand, as long it's free. So YouTube, Twitch, etc are great value.
In case I need to spend money, I prefer to own the thing I pay for. So Blu-ray/DVD/CDs discs for me. The gathered video/music can be played on all my devices from car to phone, even in flight-mode offline. I trade a bit of less convince upfront to really own it, but then I can play it as often and exactly when and where I want.
Anyway every few years one could get a higher resolution version, unfortunately the films aren't sold in source versions, but downscaled, but the video-on-demand at always lagging behind and stream worse bit rates.
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#19> Netflix has more than 110 million subscribers. > Netflix operates in more than 200 countries The five largest public torrent trackers track 30-50 million peers at any given time, serving over 10 million torrents. Torrents are estimated to have over a quarter of a billion active users. Torrents can be streamed, and in the end you have a DRM free copy of the file that you can rewatch at your pleasure, on any device(a…
> not to mention your hard earned money to nefarious corporate interests Yes, this is the basis of our society. I work for money to buy things, mostly from corporations. There's nothing nefarious about that. I find it really hard to believe that paying for content is unethical.
> I find it really hard to believe that paying for content is unethical.
Your money isn't going to the people who created the content. It is going to cartels that have no interests in common with you, and have massive lobbying power in order to force you to download malware and restrict the access of information from you.
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#20> Netflix has more than 110 million subscribers. > Netflix operates in more than 200 countries The five largest public torrent trackers track 30-50 million peers at any given time, serving over 10 million torrents. Torrents are estimated to have over a quarter of a billion active users. Torrents can be streamed, and in the end you have a DRM free copy of the file that you can rewatch at your pleasure, on any device(a…
> not to mention your hard earned money to nefarious corporate interests Yes, this is the basis of our society. I work for money to buy things, mostly from corporations. There's nothing nefarious about that. I find it really hard to believe that paying for content is unethical.
Some people think that it doesn't cost anything to make movies/TV.