RE: Is Netflix About To Get Blockbusted By Singular DTV?
As an ISP owner/operator, I really hope they have included the potential for 'download and watch later' instead of always streaming. Even better, would be if some of these systems include a 'cache popular content' option so ISPs can pull in ONE copy of something and then offer it locally.
The Internet was originally built as a communications system, fairly even 2-way traffic. With the rise of streaming video, the Net has turned into a TV system with massive traffic in one direction during 'prime couch-sitting time' in the evenings. It just wasn't built for big one-way surges, and everything from the network hardware to the economic agreements between large network operators, are being strained by this.
Netflix is the NUMBER ONE Culprit in turning the Net into a passive entertainment system. They also helped push through the Network Neutrality Act, which despite the nice-sounding name, was actually a really bad thing. First successful attempt at regulating the Frontier-space. SOPA failed, PIPA failed, the NNA finally gave them a foothold by pandering to people's desire for cheap entertainment. (bread and circuses = foodstamps & Netflix)
I encourage people to remember - the Net is the best tool for creating freedom that we've gotten since the invention of the printing press. The sum total of human knowledge is there at your fingertips. You can learn any skill, research any lore you desire....and if you discern wisely, enlightenment is out there waiting.
Blaming Netflix is as valid as blaming the damn big three monopolies that dominated the airwaves for so long with primarily, not Scottish content. Crap, to be precise. If the nannies let go and free the airwaves, the internet would see a major bottleneck vanish almost overnight. I'd watch Netflix's Daredevil with commercials on network TV if I could. Subscriptions suck. I still recall their arrival on the scene and how excited all the money people were about it. Sigh.
You know what really burns me though? How much bandwidth the US spy-net gobbles up. OK, so I actually have no idea how much they use and I could care less, because they're going to do it anyways, the nervous ninnies. But the fact that they could be clogging up my pipe with their stream just because I post seditious shyte on facecrack is rather upsetting. ;-) Cheers
Ah, other side of the water...
A lot of the problem is copyrights and broadcasting rights, yes what a tangled mess.
The Spooks take their bite but during the evening? 80% of my network's traffic is movies.
It just gets me low sometimes, seeing this amazing system of communication and knowledge used for passive entertainment. But that's what my customers want :/