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Trend to streaming media backed up by ISP data

Started by brisbourne · 6 months ago

Yesterday I wrote about Amazon extending their video streaming service, and now today I read about traffic data at ISP Plusnet that backs up this trend (via the blogs of Azeem Azhar and Martin Varsavsky).
The data from Plusnet’s network (they are a UK ISP owned by BT with over ... Continue reading »

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  • Nick

    Spot on. The cost of downloading, visiting tvrss.net, clicking through twice to get to the mininova torrent url, pasting into Tranmission, waiting 50 minutes for the download (or a day), then cleaning up the file system and playing the video is actually a pain in the arse of arses.

    When I was using Hulu the adverts were remarkably bearable.

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