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Much like how Netflix monitors torrents to find out how popular movies/shows are, Microsoft could tabulate these reports to find what OS their customers want to
by chiph 10y ago
Much like how Netflix monitors torrents to find out how popular movies/shows are, Microsoft could tabulate these reports to find what OS their customers want to use with OneDrive. But if they don't get recorded, there's no info to learn that from.
- iamdave 10y agoMuch like how Netflix monitors torrents to find out how popular movies/shows are, Wait what? Really?? What are they monitoring, seed ratios from trackers? That's an interesting/novel way of researching demand-makes sense given the service Netflix provides.
- chiph 10y agoI don't know if they're still doing it. But they were in 2013. http://variety.com/2013/digital/news/how-netflix-uses-piracy-to-pick-its-programming-1200611539/ http://variety.com/2013/digital/news/how-netflix-uses-piracy...
- iamdave 10y agoOh goodness the irony on this page "SEE ALSO: Netflix’s ‘House of Cards’ Falls Prey to Piracy" Still, that's a very interesting and out of the box method of thinking by the Netflix team. Definitely want to try and find out more about this; thanks for bringing this up!