Netflix

Apr 30, 2015 ∞

Popcorn Time, Netflix, HBO and the future of digital media

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.

Netflix launch reduces BitTorrent use

Joe 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.

Dec 26, 2012 ∞

Netflix via Amazon

This 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.

If I was a paranoid conspiracy theorist, I’d throw around phrases like “net neutrality concerns” right about now. Is Amazon prioritizing their own content over the content of competitors whose content they’re contracted to deliver?

Dec 7, 2012 ∞

For Netflix and the S.E.C., a Facebook Share Should Be Public Enough

It’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.

Jul 13, 2012 ∞

In Brief: How Reed Hastings Almost Undid Netflix

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 price-hike/Qwikster debacle, but this good article by Greg Sandoval at CNET points out that Hastings screwed a bunch of perfectly good employees, too.