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Netflix Dominates North American Internet

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the zomg-panic-panic-panic dept.

nairnr writes "Accounting for 29.7% of all information downloaded during peak usage hours by North American broadband-connected households in March, Netflix Inc. received the title in the latest Global Internet Phenomena Report released by Sandvine Corp. on Tuesday. In its ninth such report, Waterloo, Ont.-based Sandvine found the amount of data consumed by users streaming television shows and movies from Netflix's online service exceeded even that of peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing technology BitTorrent."

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  1. It only makes sense by whoami-ky · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Gee, they actually made it MORE convenient and people are willing to pay for it. Compare this to what the movie/tv studios do on a regular basis. They make it harder to get the content and people tend to find alternative sources.

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  2. Re:The Real Netflix Fix by The+Good+Reverend · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Studios have put up with streaming because it's generally NOT able to be saved in the embedded and proprietary systems it's used in. Anything that saved locally wouldn't adhere to current copyright agreements, so it's not gonna happen.

  3. Re:Field of Screams by anagama · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Exactly. I use Netflix streaming a lot -- the price is right and I usually have no trouble finding something I want to watch when I want to watch it. I think the fact that its bandwidth usage exceeds P2P transfers is something the industry should notice. Many people are perfectly happy obtaining their content legally -- they just need an outlet that provides it at a reasonable cost without BS ads. If the industry doesn't provide, people will get it other ways (i.e., piracy), but if it is made easily available at affordable rates without advertising and its associated delays/annoyances, people will devour it. The proof is Netflix.

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  4. Re:OTOH by blair1q · · Score: 5, Funny

    Also makes it easier to trace your couriers back to where they've bin laden.

  5. Surprise surprise by nedlohs · · Score: 5, Insightful

    people don't actually have an issue with paying to access content and will do so even though they can download the same stuff for free on bittorrent.

    How the content industry let netflix take that market that was open for them to grab and how the music industry managed to let a niche computer company take over a similar music market that was open for them to grab I will never know.

    Well actually of course I will know, too busy clinging to the distribution model they already had.