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It is old news, and the technology revolves around extracting extra money from IP holders while disrupting a small number of transfers on selected files. Consi
by guard-of-terra 15y ago
It is old news, and the technology revolves around extracting extra money from IP holders while disrupting a small number of transfers on selected files.
Consider skipping.
- kika 15y agoGiven how Russian internet is structured it may actually work. I mean the small number might become not so small. You can relatively easy (given the appropriate administrative support) break the download for 1M people at once (a whole city) from a single server. The upside of this is that you can easily get 20-30Mbit for $20-30/mo from 3-4 competing ISPs in a relatively large city.
- guard-of-terra 15y agoIt would not because users will immediately switch to ipv6, vpns, encryption, private trackers, other protocols. Sites that actually provide competitive service (like ivi.ru) pose much larger threat to piracy.
- kika 15y agoAll these sites (like IVI and the likes) share the same, very limited, library of content. It is like 10% of Netflix/Hulu, or even less. But potentially sure, I agree.
- guard-of-terra 15y agoOf course they would never gather a decent library of rarer, older or foreign content. Just torrent that, nobody cares.
- guard-of-terra 15y agoAlso, given administrative support you can simply cap the outgoing traffic to one tenth of incoming. Nobody can seed efficiently any more, so the whole experience becomes suboptimal.
- kika 15y agothis will cap everything else, HTTP uploads, Dropboxes of all kinds, etc.
- guard-of-terra 15y agoSince when does "administrative support" care about those things? :)