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I 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.
Author uses acronym CDN without first defining it. Explain Like I Do Not Already Know What You Are Explaining.
that article is pretty technical, beyond the level of technicality of simply knowing what a CDN is.
> 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…
How much money do those top 5 torrent trackers generate for the content creators? How much money do the "cartels" generate for the content creators? I believe the tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of people involved in the production of the thousands of TV shows and movies earned much more money from those "cartels" than those torrent trackers
How much of it due to special discount that netflix gets from AWS. Would a company thats not highly visible as netflix save the same amount of money ?
> Recommendations.
I find netflix recommendations pretty bad. Does it really work for other people?
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What. Are. You. Talking. About.
What happens when I violate IP laws? The police comes knocking on the door, even though I didn't deprive anyone of anything or harm anyone in any way. The only reason companies like Netflix are able to exist in the face of alternatives that are many times better in every single way(like torrents) is because of this underlying foundation of violence.
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that article is pretty technical, beyond the level of technicality of simply knowing what a CDN is.
But even technical people sometimes don't know simple acronyms. It doesn't hurt to define them anyway.
> 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…
I 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.
[EDIT] in fact, now that I think about it, I almost never just browse the catalogue anymore, while I used to a lot. I open it and go to search ASAP, then close it if I didn't find what I want or see something else interesting in the related results. The auto-playing is annoying enough that it's almost totally driven me away from that part of the interface. I knew I didn't like it but hadn't thought about how it'd affected my behavior, but there it is. Time browsing catalogue from "lots" to "nearly none".
[EDIT EDIT] I might add that full-screen ads you have to scroll past (with no indication that's what you need to do) and other general mucking with the plain grid-layout interface make it wicked confusing for my parents. They just got a Roku solely for Netflix and if it keeps doing that I bet they won't use it very much.
> Netflix Saves Money In AWS How much of it due to special discount that netflix gets from AWS. Would a company thats not highly visible as netflix save the same amount of money ? > Recommendations. I find netflix recommendations pretty bad. Does it really work for other people?
> 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…