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Re:Project Atlas by IMTDb on Monday October 01, 2018 @05:50AM (#18111226)
In 2016 Netflix only offered 31 of the top 250 IMDb movies. Don't know where we are now, but in my country I am surprised when a movie I want to watch is available on Netflix. People do not make money on seeding, they gain internet points, aka coins.

The advantage here is that the protocol itself will incentivise people to seed instead of doing a hit & run, and will thus increase the value of the network.

Not sure it will work, but the experiment is interesting.

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Re:Project Atlas by Semaphor on Monday October 01, 2018 @08:39AM (#18112010)
Not to mention that it gets worse with the old publishers all wanting to start their own streaming services and having made Netflix block VPNs.

It's as if they saw a drop in piracy and asked themselves how to make it rise again.

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