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Re:Publishers File Suit Against Internet Archive by toomuchtodo on Monday June 01, 2020 @12:48PM (#23380557)
Implementation detail I gloss over for the audience.
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Re:Publishers File Suit Against Internet Archive by 411111111111111 on Monday June 01, 2020 @04:18PM (#23383266)
Would you call Netflix a rich client for s3 though?

I think there is value in the destinction if it's only used as a storage backend, but actually gets the media through different sources.

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Re:Publishers File Suit Against Internet Archive by toomuchtodo on Monday June 01, 2020 @04:33PM (#23383435)
No, I'd call Netflix a rich client for Netflix's OpenConnect appliance network.

To be clear, I have a deep appreciation for SciHub and LibGen, I just don't have the energy to dive in depth in this forum.

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Re:Publishers File Suit Against Internet Archive by 411111111111111 on Monday June 01, 2020 @04:41PM (#23383537)
I thought the openconnect network was basically just a cache which tries to serve popular media directly from the providers?

They didn't have enough storage for their full library on the appliances previously. So that'd be like a caching proxy in front of the service

Maybe that changed with how tiny their library became over the years. (Edit:it didn't change. That's what it is.)

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