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Re:S.Korea broadband firm sues Netflix after traffic surge f... by nsoxo on Friday October 01, 2021 @07:35AM (#28717125)
Netflix is pushing data AND you are pulling it.
Re:S.Korea broadband firm sues Netflix after traffic surge f... by jiggawatts on Friday October 01, 2021 @08:17AM (#28717474)
No, they are not "pushing" data.

Pushing implies that data is sent by the server without clients explicitly requesting it.

Pulling is when the client requests data explicitly.

I get notifications pushed to my phone by Apple.

I pull YouTube videos.

YouTube doesn't suddenly decide to "push" random videos to my phone in the middle of the night.

Similarly, Netflix doesn't "push" videos to their customers.

Re:S.Korea broadband firm sues Netflix after traffic surge f... by fouric on Friday October 01, 2021 @08:10AM (#28717408)
"Push" and "pull" in this context refer to the initiation of a session. The user is pulling, because they start streaming. Netflix does absolutely nothing by itself - it doesn't randomly start delivering data to you.
Re:S.Korea broadband firm sues Netflix after traffic surge f... by yunohn on Friday October 01, 2021 @07:43AM (#28717186)
Nobody says that a bullock cart involves the bullock pulling the cart and the cart pushing the bullock. That’s only a physics framing.
Re:S.Korea broadband firm sues Netflix after traffic surge f... by nsoxo on Friday October 01, 2021 @07:51AM (#28717259)
This is commerce. It's a transaction. Both parties benefit.