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Video-streaming giant Netflix has said it is going to stop subscribers from using internet proxies to view content not available in their home countries.
Due to licensing agreements, Netflix content varies between countries - many users have a virtual private network (VPN) or other proxy to get round this.
The firm said it would increase efforts in the next few weeks to block the use of such proxies.
Netflix expanded streaming services to more than 130 countries last week.
But some countries have more content than others - for example, the Australian Netflix catalogue has only about 10% of the content available to its US subscribers.
David Fullagar, vice president of content delivery architecture, said in a blog post on Thursday that the US firm was in the process of licensing content around the world.
But he said it had a long way to go before it could offer viewers the same films and shows everywhere.
Oh well, back to BitTorrent.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 16 2016, @06:16PM
please elaborate why bitorrent is shit so i can join your swarming hate group.
on a side note: shit is undervalued unless ofc it has been rebranded as fertilizer ^_^
(Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 16 2016, @06:44PM
Three reasons ShitTorrent sucks:
(1) Overly complicated. Downloading many little chunks from multiple places is a stupid fucking idea, when you can simply stream one big chunk instead.
(2) Ridiculously slow. Downloading from jerks on slow fucking links is a stupid fucking idea, when you can simply stream from a content delivery network instead.
(3) Blatantly illegal. Uploading while you download is a stupid fucking idea, which literally exposes you to legal liability because you personally are infringing copyright.
You know BitTorrent is even older than YouTube, right? And even YouTube is over a decade old now? Have you noticed there are whole content delivery networks dedicated to video streaming these days? Have you noticed they're full of all that shit you want to watch? Get with the fucking times and join the 2010s, would you?
(Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 16 2016, @07:25PM
Get with the fucking times and join the 2010s, would you?
Never! My brother showed me how to BitTorrent when I was a teen, and now that I'm over 30, I'm too old to change! Torrentz forever! Sticking it to The Man! The Old Man, like me!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 16 2016, @07:35PM
(1) You can set some clients to stream the file by downloading the initial chunks first. It is more reliable than streaming which has a single point of failure.
(2) There are plenty of slow streaming sites and fast torrents with many seeds.
(3) Nobody monitors the activity of every torrent. It's newer movies that get the most piracy monitoring. You can also use a private tracker.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by RamiK on Saturday January 16 2016, @08:15PM
(1) BitTorrent's overhead is very low: https://hal.inria.fr/inria-00000156/en [inria.fr] . And multiple small chunks improves reliability and re-retrieval when a chunk fails to transfer if a package drops or corruption occurs and the checksum fails.
(2) The speed is determined by the seeders. If you setup a dedicated server or server farm with a dedicated commercial internet connection to seed, you'd get the same speeds you would streaming.
(3) Unless you licensed the work, streaming is infringing copyright just the same.
BitTorrent is even older than YouTube...
It's "age" is a testimony to it's superiority despite the money driving the competition. The fact that Linux distributions, GOG, Steam and Microsoft (Windows 10's updates) all deploy using P2P protocols is because they tested centralized solutions and distributed solutions and P2P came out on top.
Streaming has it's place for the purpose of fulfilling instant gratification on slow, asymmetric internet connections. But with some broadband and most of fiber, you can already watch 1080p torrents live like you would streaming them. Really, the likes of Netflix are perfectly positioned to switch to distributed P2P protocols and can use one of any DRMs to secure any illusions of copyright protections the right holders demand to satisfy their 20th century notions of digital property.
compiling...
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Saturday January 16 2016, @08:30PM
The first foray of the BBC into the online world, the disastrous iplayer 1, was a heavy windows client with DRM and bittorrent stye. It was replaced in 2008 with a HTTP/CDM model.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 16 2016, @08:52PM
Anon is an edgy troll replying to itself. Do not waste many brain cells on it.