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.
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.
Our source noted that Hulu has no interest in being a first mover here and that a requirement for authentication is likely still a few years out. Hulu, however, does want to be a good partner and may have to give in to its partners’ pressure soon or later.
via techcrunch.com
This is a damn shame. It’ll be a blow to the common-sense evolution of television as a business model, and a boon to piracy.