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Re:Life of a Netflix Partner Engineer – The case of the extr... by wu_187 on Thursday January 21, 2021 @06:45AM (#25857908)
My guess is DRM. Less data in the buffer means if someone is trying to rip a stream they won't be able to speed up the process by dumping the buffer.
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Re:Life of a Netflix Partner Engineer – The case of the extr... by hhmc on Thursday January 21, 2021 @07:46AM (#25858276)
How much does that speed (of copying the buffer) really matter though?
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