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Much 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
by iamdave 10y ago
Much 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!