Thursday, April 30, 2015
This story about a U.K. court ordering Popcorn Time blocked has been knocking around in my brain for a couple of days now. When stuff knocks around in my head for days, chances are it will end up in written form, right here. So here we go.
Friday, May 3, 2013
Netflix launch reduces BitTorrent useJoe Hanlon of TechRadar: Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos says that there is a correlation between the Netflix launching in a country and BitTorrent traffic slowing down in the same region. If you stream it, they will pay.Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Netflix via AmazonThis is interesting: Netflix delivers its streaming option via one of Amazon’s cloud storage and content distribution networks. I try to avoid summarizing other peoples’ work, but the other interesting bit here is that Amazon’s in-house streaming video service saw no interruption. …Friday, December 7, 2012
For Netflix and the S.E.C., a Facebook Share Should Be Public EnoughIt’s true, but not really because lots of people can follow Netflix CEO Reed Hastings on Facebook, but because many reporters actually do. This was not going to go unreported.Friday, July 13, 2012
Greg Sandoval, writing at CNET: For most of the former Netflix employees who moved to Qwikster, their old jobs had been filled. They no longer had a place at the company. I once asked “What is going on at Netflix?” I wasn’t alone, either. Reed Hastings definitely failed all of his customers in the …