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by bl4ckm0r3
867 days ago
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"let me have a copy locally" is a very naive view of the world.
1. netflix works also in places with horrible connections/terrible bandwidth
2. what would you do? preemptively download all the series, movies etc that they think you'll download? (that may work in places with good internet, but even there, how much disk space would you need like on a mobile device?)
3. most behaviour on netflix is "let's try to click on these random series/movies and see if i like it" so you'd be downloading things that you'll never come back to see. I am not sure i understand your point...plus netflix has the HUGE problem of optimizing the stream as much as possible to give people fluidity in their experience (exactly for the - low bandwidth - connections) |
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Giving the user a choice to pay less and run their own binary of netflix would solve most of those issues
1. Shitty connection: no problem, just wait for the movie to load.
2. Preemptive download: on demand pre-load
3. Stream optimization: would be solved by local caching and P2P offload
4. Mobile devices: either caching there (already a feature) or NAT punchthrough, accessing movies you already preloaded in your home infrastructure
5. Naive view of the world: I think many things we do nowadays would be considered naive. What, a computer the size of a chocolate bar in the hand of everyone? This just shuts the discussion off of new ways of thinking. My idea could be technically bad, but "naive" is just a way of saying "out of the common discourse".