How a group of neighbors created their own Internet service

Re:How a group of neighbors created their own Internet service by thedufer on Sunday November 01, 2015 @04:25PM (#10488376)

To be fair, "Netflix played all night" is not actually a thing that happens, as far as I can tell. When autoplaying, they pause every few episodes in case you're not watching. I'm sure they don't want to pay bandwidth/licensing for shows playing to an empty room.

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Re:How a group of neighbors created their own Internet service by s_kilk on Sunday November 01, 2015 @04:45PM (#10488479)

I may be wrong on this, but I believe they are legally required to stop auto-playing every so often, so that it still counts as on-demand streaming and not simply a TV channel.

In fact, that's probably not correct, not sure where I picked that up.

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Re:How a group of neighbors created their own Internet service by toomuchtodo on Sunday November 01, 2015 @06:01PM (#10488855)

Netflix has to pay for every "view" to whomever they're licensing content from, just as Spotify has to pay for every listen (although, the rules are much different for internet "radio" than they are for video streaming agreements Netflix has).

All services check if you're still around so they're not spending licensing money they don't have to.

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Re:How a group of neighbors created their own Internet service by pasbesoin on Sunday November 01, 2015 @05:55PM (#10488819)

I haven't allowed myself to run into it, but I seem to recall having read that it is after circa 3 episodes.

Nonetheless, if you are in the habit of dosing off, many nights, that can still result in a lot of "wasted" bandwidth, particularly with some of the more miserly caps being described in the (U.S.) press as having been imposed or "coming soon."

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