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Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson

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492 points storf45 | 4 comments | 16 Nov 24 03:42 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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jaarse ◴[16 Nov 24 05:59 UTC] No.42154683[source]▶
Everyone pointing out that their illegal streams, X streams, etc. work fine are kind of missing the point.

These secondary streams might be serving a couple thousand users at best.

Initial estimates are in the hundreds of millions for Netflix. Kind of a couple of orders of magnitude difference there.

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1. samatman ◴[16 Nov 24 06:42 UTC] No.42154880[source]▶
Piracy is distributed, yes.

I think that is the point, in fact.

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2. robertlagrant ◴[16 Nov 24 07:03 UTC] No.42154963[source]▶
Everything's easy when it's someone else's content.
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3. samatman ◴[16 Nov 24 16:55 UTC] No.42157387[source]▶
I have to assume this is some snarky way of saying "violating copyright is Bad, m'kay".

Because taken at face value it's false. Any technical challenges involved in distributing a stream cannot possibly be affected by the legal status of the bits being pushed across the network.

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4. robertlagrant ◴[18 Nov 24 09:39 UTC] No.42171022{3}[source]▶
It means that someone who spends 100% of their money on distribution is going to have an easier time than someone who pays for content and distribution.