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Re: Netflix Is Eating Up More Of North America's Bandwidth Than Any Other Company
From: Joe Abley <jabley () hopcount ca>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 16:16:01 -0400
On 2011-05-18, at 16:09, Dorn Hetzel wrote:
they can capture popular programs at the time of multicast for later viewing. Whether this is better than capturing the same programs over a broadcast medium for later playback, I don't know...
... or a peer to peer medium, which is (as I understand it) how people who really want this to happen today manage to do it. The problem is not the distribution so much as the need to shoe-horn this network efficiency into the content business model. I heard similar stories about the early days of distributing digital copies of movies to theatres for presentation -- the technology was trivial, even with fairly low-power commodity CPUs, until you insist that the content be encrypted so that nobody can walk off with it without paying. Joe
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