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Re:Netflix suffers first massive global outage by tjoff on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @11:02AM (#17293880)
How is nightly news critical? Worst case, watch it 20 minutes later instead?
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Re:Netflix suffers first massive global outage by markbnj on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @12:15PM (#17294738)
Or you've already read the details of every story on the net hours earlier.
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Re:Netflix suffers first massive global outage by r00fus on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @12:56PM (#17295199)
It's not mission critical except for stickiness/adherence.

Arguably it could be used as a guaranteed self-marketing platform (in the intimate/most core sense - you can't watch if you don't have Netflix so people will just think of it as NetflixNews).

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Re:Netflix suffers first massive global outage by AckSyn on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @12:11PM (#17294691)
Believe it or not, a lot of people still use local tv/news for entertainment or information (of local news).

(Near) realtime would be important for emergencies, as rare as they are.

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Re:Netflix suffers first massive global outage by tjoff on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @04:13PM (#17297545)
I'm not questioning that and it doesn't imply that an outage would be a critical event.

Yes it would be embarrassing and it would be an inconvenience, but nothing worse than what happened today.

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