Inside Netflix’s Plan to Boost Streaming Quality and Unclog the Internet
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"The company is on a quest to re-encode its entire catalog"
And now we can all have ponies a lot more cheaply and efficiently!
Via Lauren Weinstein.
WebTorrent Brings BitTorrent to the Web, Impresses Netflix
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https://torrentfreak.com/webtorrent-brings-bittorrent-to-the-web-impresses-netflix-151213/>
"BitTorrent currently transfers petabytes of data across the Internet
every month, but with the shift to online streaming it's losing
prominence. Stanford University graduate Feross Aboukhadijeh is bridging
this gap with WebTorrent and has already piqued the interest of Netflix,
other tech companies, and many enthusiastic developers."
Very cool! Via Mace Moneta.
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