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Re:Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-... by iamdave on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @01:50PM (#13933103)
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.

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Re:Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-... by chiph on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @02:04PM (#13933207)
I don't know if they're still doing it. But they were in 2013.

http://variety.com/2013/digital/news/how-netflix-uses-piracy...

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Re:Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-... by iamdave on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @02:09PM (#13933249)
Oh 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!

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