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Will Netflix Destroy the Internet?
nicholasjay writes "Netflix is swallowing America's bandwidth and it probably won't be long before it comes for the rest of the world. That's one of the headlines from Sandvine's Fall 2010 Global Internet Phenomena Report, an exhaustive look at what people around the world are doing with their Internet lines. According to Sandvine, Netflix accounts for 20 percent of downstream Internet traffic during peak home Internet usage hours in North America. That's an amazing share — it beats that of YouTube, iTunes, Hulu, and, perhaps most tellingly, the peer-to-peer file-sharing protocol BitTorrent."
"500GB Limit."
I love how retards like you fail to understand how bandwidth works.
You're not paying for a certain amount of downloads per month as if you were buying gas. You're paying for a pipe with a certain momentary capacity measurable in a very small time frame, say 100mbit/second.
When they start advertising "high max data speeds" but then implement a cap that works out to a piddly-crap connection worse than dialup (the standard crapass USA ISP like Comcrap, or Coxsuckers at 150GB limit equals 0.45 Mbit/second), they are committing false advertising, plain and simple.
Oh, I don't know... does Netflix run on anything other than IE and maybe Safari and PS3 yet? Aren't all those platforms dying out?
Maybe Netflix will save computers as we know it! Oh, wait, looks like they have an iphone app. We're doomed.
Seriously, is there a way to stream Netflix under Linux yet (aside from in a VM?)