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by iamdave 3379 days ago
Much like how Netflix monitors torrents to find out how popular movies/shows are,

Wait what? Really?? What are they monitoring, seed ratios from trackers? That's an interesting/novel way of researching demand-makes sense given the service Netflix provides.
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chiph 3379 days ago
I don't know if they're still doing it. But they were in 2013.

http://variety.com/2013/digital/news/how-netflix-uses-piracy...

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iamdave 3379 days ago
Oh goodness the irony on this page

"SEE ALSO: Netflix’s ‘House of Cards’ Falls Prey to Piracy"

Still, that's a very interesting and out of the box method of thinking by the Netflix team. Definitely want to try and find out more about this; thanks for bringing this up!

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